Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Beame's extraordinary slowness brought him into sharp conflict with the Emergency Fiscal Control Board. He was supposed to deliver details of how and when the city was going to chop the rest of the deficit, year by year. Instead, Beame presented a nine-page outline. Among other things, he proposed to trim thousands of more employees through attrition, continue the wage freeze for two more years, and try to save on equipment purchases, building rentals and capital construction. But to the dismay of the board members, many of them top businessmen, the document was maddeningly vague...
...wave of mounting despair swept across Lebanon through most of last week, as the conflict between left-wing Moslem and right-wing Christian factions exploded into yet another round of fighting. The strife that had intermittently rocked the country since April was spreading. The street battles were fiercer than ever, and the government seemed unable to halt them. Reflecting the grim mood was Radio Lebanon Announcer Sharif Akhawi, who said on the air: "Armed men are everywhere. All roads are closed. Blood maniacs are at large. We are losing Lebanon...
There is still a danger of armed conflict within the army. I am quite certain that the [right-wing forces] are interested in setting the best units we have against each other...
...took two hours for the Crimson to be credited with the victory. Conflicting rumors and statements concerning the tie forced Cornell administrators to do a bit of researching into NCAA ruling. Only after lengthy deliberation was the conflict finally resolved...
Bombings and Trashings. That conflict is recounted with harrowing accuracy in Shoulder to Shoulder (PBS Masterpiece Theatre, Sunday, 9 p.m. E.S.T.), a six-part series that began this week. If there is a television aesthetic, the BBC comes close to fulfilling it in Shoulder, a show that could have easily degenerated into agitprop; instead it is made a continually probing revelation of period and character. Led by a beautiful, red-haired widow, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, the suffragettes endured ridicule, torture and repeated jailings; several of them were killed. The angriest went underground, accelerating their...