Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the blacks' interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict heightened and the sympathies of their leaders beginning to tilt toward the Palestinians, a potentially powerful political force could emerge as a new domestic factor in U.S. policymaking for the Middle East. In the weeks ahead, however, Washington's course seems reasonably clear. The Administration is likely to await the outcome of the three-day summit between Begin and Sadat, scheduled to begin in Haifa the first week in September. A few days later Bob Strauss will return to the region to try to quicken the pace...
...dollar-a-year man for the Government and at the same time acting as a consultant for his law firm, which has among its clients many of the country's largest oil companies. Carter and the Senate will have to decide whether this dual position might represent a conflict of interest; Strauss says he will abide by that judgment...
Whether that will help or hinder their candidate is another question. The Haydens' political philosophy seems to run counter to the conservative trend in America. There may be new interest in the Viet Nam War, but it is highly questionable that evoking the Haydens' approach to the conflict is a way to make political capital. Indeed, there is the very real possibility that stirring memories of the war may strengthen the revisionist beliefs of those Americans who feel that the conflict need not have been lost after...
...forth in salvos of histories, novels, movies and television shows. Furthermore, say experts who keep an eye on such trends, although it has not yet given birth to a Gone With the Wind, World War II is at last supplanting the Civil War as the country's favorite conflict for probing, pondering and-to be honest-enjoying...
...challenged. In a study of 73 men, from 25 to 89 years old, Dr. S. Mitchell Harman and fellow researchers at the National Institute on Aging confirmed that there was decreasing sexual activity with advancing years but that levels of testosterone remained remarkably stable after age 30. These results conflict directly with other studies undertaken in the past five years. Harman thinks he knows the reason: the earlier work included men in hospitals and nursing homes whose hormone levels might have been affected by chronic illness, obesity or alcoholism...