Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arabs talked of peace and hailed 1977 as the year for a Middle East settlement. Israelis warned of war as they watched Syrian peace-keeping forces in Lebanon inch closer to the country's southern border. Both sides in the Middle East conflict seemed sincere enough last week in their expressions of hope and fear. But it was also clear that both were engaged in a certain amount of posturing-aimed not so much at each other as at the incoming Administration in Washington...
...such framework for negotiations can be achieved. I assume therefore that in 1977, when the new Administration enters office, initiatives will be taken by the United States to bring the parties together, because the responsibility for effective peacemaking lies mainly on the shoulders of the parties to the conflict...
Certainly the potential for conflict remains. Early in his campaign, Carter criticized the Federal Reserve for being too stingy in doling out money and credit, and he has proposed making the terms of future Federal Reserve chairmen coincide with the terms of Presidents-a none-too-subtle indication that he believes each President should have a chairman who is philosophically compatible. But Carter cannot appoint a new chairman to succeed Burns until January 1978, and he knows that his plans for economic expansion will fail unless Burns and the board pump enough money into the banking system...
...Summer and Smoke's original weakness was its strength. It posed a diagrammatic, didactic confrontation between Alma Winemiller, representing Soul (alma is the Spanish word for soul), and John Buchanan Jr., the hell-raising son of the doctor next door, representing Body. In its somewhat dogmatic way, this conflict exemplified the central tension in Williams' work between the flesh and the spirit, which makes him an extremely Protestant writer. The late great theologian, Paul Tillich, regarded Williams as a Christian existentialist...
...leader who created "the Palestinian problem" by rejecting moderation and sowing intra-Arab dissension prior to the founding of Israel. The turbulent childhood of Rahman al-Qudwa (in later life Yasir Arafat) is shadowed by Palestinian fear and hostility to a growing influx of foreign Jews; it is the conflict between opposing reactions to this threat which marks young Rahman's coming of age. As relatives of the Muftis and prominent businessmen themselves, the future fedayeen leader's family had felt the bludgeon of al-Husayni's fanaticism even before Rahman's birth. Caught in the power struggles between...