Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What bothers me is that the agreement [Lance's sale promise] was announced with great fanfare, but when the going gets rough, there's a request for an extension." Republican Charles Percy asked whether Lance's pronouncements on bank prime rates involved the "appearance of possible conflict of interest" and attempted to bore in further. But Georgia's Sam Nunn interjected: "How far can you extend this logic? There's no place in the world where he can put his money where it won't be affected by his decisions...
...Senate, the fight against the bomb was led by Oregon's Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, whose chief worry was that the very precision of the weapon invites its use and would encourage escalation of conventional conflict into nuclear holocaust. Agreed Iowa Democrat Dick Clark: "I find the concept of a limited nuclear exchange extremely dubious. It is vitally important to retain the distinction between conventional and nuclear...
...express that mind. The best phrase to express our relationship with Israel is one of independent support. We have a primary devotion to America, and in the constellation of our values, Israel plays a primary role as well. We see an absolute identity between these two. We see no conflict...
...dramatic switch from his previous backing of all Rhodesian black nationalist movements. The Zambian leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only be born out of the barrel...
...summit was the customary volume of anti-West rhetoric. In a stunning departure from tradition, Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, whose country used to be a Moscow ally, attacked Soviet intervention in Africa. He thundered: "Socialist imperialism will only turn the African continent into a vast arena of conflict. We do not want to replace one imperialism with another imperialism." An Egyptian delegate agreed, warning that "the only issue that really matters here is that of Soviet interference in Africa." The conference subsequently adopted a Senegal-proposed resolution that requested OAU members not to seek "foreign intervention," nor to allow their...