Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special royal commission, appointed last week by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, may help calm the conflict and get the strikers back to work. But it is not likely to produce a quick cure for the problems now plaguing NHS. Only a comprehensive course of financial and administrative therapy is likely to do that, and such a treatment cannot even begin until the government and its opponents agree on a diagnosis of the problem...
...done so in a crass-commercial and silly-ponderous film. ("What did you say your name was?" That's speed speaking, and yes, he's in bed with a prostitute smoking cigarettes after the fact.) The script is cumbersome, the soundtrack amateurish, the crowd scenes lifeless, the final moral conflict dance like and played so badly that you actually oppose the hero's crowning heroics. Yet it is, particularly for director Hill's first effort, stunning to look at. Bleached New Orleans pink and plaster white, lush Cajun greens. But mostly a million browns-browns that dwarf humans...
...time no one had raised any objections about the propriety of releasing inside versions of "secret" cabinet meetings. Wilson claims in these memoirs to have been against the resumption of arms sales to South Africa, an assertion that Crossman's diaries show to be false. Wilson and Crossman conflict on many other points, mostly ones that seem fairly trivial to outsiders but that have remained issses of passionate conceern to the Labour party's left wing...
...stopped at the same time this spring as its political allies were ousted, when Vietnam was at its most chaotic and needy. It seems clear now that all that ever concerned the U.S. government was its own military, political, and economic interests and that those interests were in direct conflict with the welfare of the Vietnamese. It is horrible, almost beyond imagining, that America now feels not the slightest pangs of duty to help patch together the nation it so blindly tore apart...
About 15 picketers from the Spartacus Youth League, described by spokesman Ellen Hamilton as a Marxist group of about twenty, denounced the candidates as racist. Hamilton said the Spartacus League is in favor of busing, and sees the busing conflict as a class struggle...