Word: conflict
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...1930s and '40s, the sands of northeast Africa were a cockpit of conflict between rival European colonial powers, chiefly Britain and Italy. Today, in both Eritrea and Ogaden, the central issue is the integrity of national boundaries, v. self-determination by individual provinces or tribal groups. The Ethiopians are resolved to retain the territory they acquired during a century of expansion. The Eritreans, whose land was an Italian colony until 1941, are fighting for independence; the Somalis are pursuing their dream of uniting the various Somali homelands under one flag. But these conflicts also have international significance. The Horn...
...start of internment, the unwise British detention plan that summarily imprisoned 2,000 suspected terrorists and thus served to heighten sectarian tensions in Ulster before the program was abandoned in 1975. The day after Elizabeth's departure was another big date in Ulster's calendar of conflict: the anniversary of the closing of Londonderry's gates in 1689 to prevent the forces of James II, the Catholic King of England, from entering. It was rioting touched off by this anniversary in 1969 that prompted the British to send in the army-which has been tied down...
...permanent chairman. But they eventually concluded that to bring in someone new would set Lockheed back while the outsider familiarized himself with the company. So the choice fell on Anderson, who knows Lockheed thoroughly. After serving as a naval officer during World War II and the Korean conflict, he joined the company in 1956 and worked his way up through several financial posts to vice chairman and chief financial officer. In that job, he was aware of some jiggery-pokery in Lockheed's foreign sales. But the board's special review committee found that...
With that, attention shifted to a very different kind of conflict in the attractive, ordinarily tranquil Marquette Park area. Surrounding the park is a blue-collar ethnic neighborhood (Polish, Irish, Lithuanian) of shaded streets, neatly trimmed lawns and well-maintained bungalows, one of the last white enclaves in the city. Not coincidentally, it is also the site of the headquarters of Collin's Nazi party. Last summer, during a civil rights march there, 16 citizens and 16 police were injured in the ensuing riot. Lately crowds of up to 1,500 beer-swigging white youths have swarmed around...
...economist by training, Witteveen always carries a pocket calculator, which he whips into action during esoteric discussions of international finance. A strict adherent of the obscure Sufi religious cult,* Witteveen, despite the intense pressures of his job, finds time to meditate every morning and evening. He sees no conflict between the practice of the dismal science and the mysticism of the Sufi. Says he: "The Sufi movement is above all differences of nationality and race...