Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huge Oilfield. The conflict was not simply over one ship, of course, but over its mission: to search for oil. Ever since the discovery of oil off the Greek island of Thassos in 1974, there has been speculation that the Aegean might contain a huge oilfield. For both, the cost of oil has consumed 80% of foreign currency earnings, so each considers the search for new sources a matter of survival. When several foreign companies rejected Turkey's invitation to explore the disputed waters, the Turks decided to set out on their own. At a cost of $3.7 million...
...understandably concerned with security. Here, the vital German-American relationship has changed in style but not in substance. Both Brandt and Schmidt have pursued policies more independent from Washington than either Adenauer or Erhard. For example, harsh words were exchanged between Bonn and Washington during the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. On the one had, Brandt was irritated by Washington's failure to consult its Allies during the conflict; on the other hand, Washington criticized West European refusal to provide the American airlift with logistical support. Washington added that developments in the Middle East concerned the security of the Atlantic Alliance...
...unfortunate that the Miltons give this impression, for though the debates undoubtedly seemed pointless at times, there must have been more to them than the desire to write bigger and better large-character posters than your opponents. The Miltons fail to go into the ideological conflict very deeply, leaving the reader with little sense of the theoretical basis of the namecalling--one knows there was a great deal of commotion, but it seems to have been without reason. They offer an exact, detailed timetable, to be sure--they have researched the subject thoroughly, and each event is chronicled carefully...
...countries such as America and Australia aspirations have always been high. But in recent times in Australia there has been a tendency for current expectations to rise beyond the limits of current resources. Once expectations and demands become excessive serious economic problems, conflict, disillusion become inevitable...
Both Israel and Syria seem to be doing nothing to block the Christian plan to end the conflict by "cantonizing" Lebanon into religious zones. Last week, as a Palestinian peace mission set out to negotiate a cease-fire in Damascus, Syrian President Hafez Assad launched into a three-hour speech that flayed Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Liberation Organization boss, for carrying on the war. Said Assad: "Those who declare that they wish to liberate Jounieh do not aspire to liberate Palestine." Peace, he made clear, would come only on Syrian terms...