Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franco's real entry onto the Spanish scene came in July, 1936, when as the commander of the Army of Africa he led the "nationalist" rebel forces in their campaign to overthrow the legitimately elected Popular Front government of the Second Republic. In a bloody three-year conflict, Franco's armies, aided crucially by Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, overcame the underequipped soldiers of Republican Spain. Troops chanting the slogan "Long live Death" destroyed the hopes of workers and peasants for a transformed Spain...
Rowe said that The Advocate's policy resulted from a conflict between anti-elitism and quality...
...luck if I turned to someone in Chem 20 or Ec 10 and told them that the system they want to become a part of is not really practicable, equitable, or even desirable, and that it might not last too long in its present form. The problem is a conflict in two dimensions. I might be trying to convince the man that the water is poisoned, but he is arguing that he is thirsty...
Most foreign observers doubt that either the M.P.L.A. or the UNITA-F.N.L.A. coalition is strong enough to win a decisive victory. A long civil war in Angola, however, could involve an increasing number of interested nations. Zaire, for example, might find itself in conflict with the Congo Republic over control of the rich oil deposits in the M.P.L.A.-controlled enclave of Cabinda. Last week there were reports of clashes between units of a Zaire-backed independence front in Cabinda and M.P.L.A. soldiers. Moreover, the Soviet Union seems alarmingly determined to make Angola-by means of the M.P.L.A.-a major...
...many cases, family therapists argue, an outbreak of physical illness is both a symptom of high stress among family members and an attempt to cope with it. Minuchin says that anorexia nervosa victims are "saviors of the family" because they paper over parental conflicts that threaten to destroy the family. Psychiatrist Philip Guerin, director of the Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, N.Y., finds that many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond...