Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Round. The two-day summit in Salzburg increased Sadat's stature as the pre-eminent spokesman for the Arabs and as a truly international figure. More than that, it was the first round in a series of talks that could prove a watershed in the turbulent conflict that has convulsed the Middle East almost constantly for 27 years...
...This conflict is a godsend for the Soviets," said a Western diplomat in Moscow about the Middle East's long no-war, no-peace situation. "If it didn't exist, they would have to invent it." Certainly Moscow has made diplomatic, political and military headway in the Middle East by encouraging unsettled conditions between Israel and the Arab countries. Ever since the U.S. rebuffed Egypt's President Nasser by refusing to sell him weapons in 1955 and, a year later, withdrawing financial aid to build the Aswan High Dam, mammoth development projects and sophisticated Soviet weapons have...
...Iraq and Syria, whose rival Baath parties have been quarreling for years, are now involved in an even more feral argument over sharing the Euphrates' water; the Soviets are damned if they take sides and damned if they don't. Moscow is also faced with an inevitable conflict between Communism and either Arab nationalism or Moslem theocracy, or both...
...seems, at first glance, an odd candidate to be the object of a cult. The nation is exhausted by its Indochina war. He was in the White House during another bitterly debated Asian conflict. Détente remains the Administration's diplomatic goal. He was a general in the cold war. Politics is perhaps the most discredited profession in the country. He knew no other way of life...
...manner producing a good guy vs. bad guy image and plays down the fact that Harvard does have a legitimate interest that may be different from those of neighbors. When this clash of separate and distinct interest occurs our system of decision-making demands that through creative conflict and compromise difference be resolved. In the Kennedy Library fight the "community" used every avenue available (but not compromise) and won that battle. In this present argument concerning the attempt to divert the Red Line down Mt. Auburn St. to Brattle St. Harvard has taken a position (which is its right...