Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meaningful way reflects the violently anti-political thrust of her work. In each of her films, political principles are beliefs that characters adhere to abstractly, and which bear no relation to their lives. In fact, as her films unfold it becomes apparent that the characters' political principles are in conflict with their lifestyles; when they discover this contradiction, they abandon politics for the things that really make Wertmuller's universe revole; sex, emotions, and material ambition...
Warfare: Forms of "warfare" and homicide resulting from conflicts over females, over scarce resources, and over ideologies, have been reported from essentially all human groups that are not either 1) spatially and technologically isolated from neighboring groups, or 2) already defeated in the contest for a larger share of an area's resources (i.e. "refuge" and "client" groups.) Referring to hunter-gatherers, Wilson is again cautious when he states: "Systematic overt aggression has been reported in a minority of hunter-gatherer peoples." 2 My own recent research suggests that armed conflict between individuals or small groups was a tactical possibility...
Some foreign observers now argue that a quick M.P.L.A. victory might be preferable to a prolonged conflict, even were it to end in a coalition government. As one senior British official puts it: "The longer the war goes on, the greater the price in Soviet bases, etc., that the Russians will be able to extract from the M.P.L.A." For this reason, British policy advisers were privately critical of Kissinger's renewed condemnation of the M.P.L.A. last week. They fear that a cool U.S. posture could play into the hands of radical, Soviet-lining elements in the Luanda government...
...relations consultant for Iran's national airline. Her decision obviously relieved the Senator, who is both a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading advocate of U.S. support for Israel. But some feminists, among them Ms. magazine's Gloria Steinem, thought that the conflict-of-interest problem in the Javits household might have been solved in another way. Said Steinem: "There was never any discussion of [Senator] Javits quitting...
...argues the French side and the Frenchman sounds like a Nazi. This sad but true fact of history--that many Frenchmen sold their countrymen into the arms of the Nazis for the sake of their careers under what they believed would be a Nazi future in Europe--informs the conflict between collaborators and loyalists that runs throughout the film. When the fascist Minister of the Interior argues the importance of order in a "National Socialist state," the loyalist Minister of Justice angrily snaps back, "you mean Kraut...