Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to go to Mexico on his first sortie abroad was singularly bold, since the history of church-state relations there is riddled with conflict and bloodshed. For three centuries, the church was an arm of the Spanish Crown and a reactionary opponent of independence. The colonial yoke was finally sloughed in 1821, and under the constitutions of 1857 and 1917, all church property was seized, monastic orders were prohibited, and each state was empowered to determine how many clergymen could serve in its territory. Though the antagonisms are less virulent today, any government official who enters a church...
...after the first half-hour the movie documentary detail thins out, and the film gets mired in a conventional drama of generational conflict. Sterling Hayden, as the aging king (of New York and eastern Pennsylvania), wishes to pass over his violent and ne'er-do-well son (Judd Hirsch) and grant his title to his grandson Dave (Eric Roberts). This young man is more interested in joining the American mainstream than he is in defending the traditional way of life, though he hates his father, if anything, more than his grandfather does. When his father attempts to sell Dave...
...virtue of kindly patience. He makes one feel that for a gently reared bourgeois family headed by such a man, his claustrophobic choice offered the best, most reasonable hope of enduring the Holocaust. Anne Jackson brings spirited understanding to the role of a woman caught in the primal conflict between mother and adolescent daughter under the most trying conditions. As Anne's mostly silent elder sister, Katherine Wallach quietly plays a self-effacing part, and the rest of the supporting cast are similarly competent. The problem is Roberta Wallach as Anne. She does well enough with the girl...
...kind of model in the roles and personalities of Mao and of Chou Enlai, who was Teng's sponsor and protector. While Mao was a visionary and Hua remains his dogmatist and disciple, Chou, like Teng, was a flexible realist. There is still undoubtedly personal as well as ideological conflict between Teng and Hua. Hua, for example, approved Teng's second purging, but now apparently endorses the Four Modernizations. In a sense, Hua may play chairman of the board to Teng's chief executive officer...
...They claim that earlier this year a high Egyptian official assured Defense Minister Weizman that Egypt was "against the establishment of an independent Palestinian state." But last month Sadat said in a letter to Begin: "The Palestinian issue was always the core of the Middle East conflict. I always demanded, and still do demand, the establishment of a Palestinian state." The Israelis argue, moreover, that Begin has made important concessions, like agreeing to remove Israeli settlements and airfields from the Sinai although he had originally insisted that they remain there for security reasons...