Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel. Egypt has manifested some degree of flexibility. The Egyptians have sided with the Palestinians during the Lebanese war. Thus, an Israeli proposal for a Palestinian state could lead to extraordinary improvement in Israeli-Egyptian relations. Such a move would clearly have positive implications for the overall Middle East conflict...
...decolonization in Africa and fair play for black and brown immigrants at home in Britain, Richard has been involved in African affairs as a minister in the defense department, later as opposition spokesman on Rhodesia and most recently at the U.N., where he got into a widely publicized conflict last year with his former American colleague Daniel Moynihan. Shocked by Moynihan's attacks on the Third World, Richard likened him to "Lear raging amidst the storm on the blasted heath" and "Savonarola in the role of an avenging angel preaching retribution and revenge." Says Richard amiably but unrepentantly...
...Chile the church, led by Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, has been in constant conflict with the government over political imprisonment, torture and murder since the 1973 military putsch. Secret police have expelled two of the church's top civil rights lawyers, and still hold a third, though they have filed no charges against him. Two months ago, Cardinal Silva and leaders of the Chilean hierarchy issued a strong statement expressing alarm about "the fearful and all-powerful police state" that threatens to impose itself "without opposition in our Latin America." One priest noted ruefully that the theology of liberation...
...time, it looked as if politics and psychology were inextricably mixed. It seems to some observers that as minority, particularly Black, students began to form organizations and clubs, that their insecurity and counterfidelity was reinforced by group, and indeed, very tight group, interaction. Much of the agony of conflict took the form of demands for more "relevance" in course work, an increase in minority student admissions to mitigate the loneliness and alienation, for law schools to take more public and publicized stands on civil rights and other social issues. As they began to voice their own confusion, it was almost...
...Times is unusually important, since so much of the play deals with the spaces between people and attempts to penetrate them. Randy Head's set is perhaps too spacious to evoke the claustrophobia of Pinter's world, but its triangular arrangement neatly defines the nature of the central conflict...