Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ATHENS-- Greece and Turkey have agreed to resume negotiations in January to resolve the conflict over mining rights in the Aegean...
...order to achieve peace between them, the parties agree to negotiate in good faith with the goal of concluding within three months from the signing of this framework a peace treaty between them, while inviting the other parties to the conflict to proceed simultaneously to negotiate and conclude similar peace treaties with a view to achieving a comprehensive peace in the area...
...slowed to a virtual halt. To rekindle the peace initiative and avert a deterioration that could lead to war, Carter invited Begin and Sadat to Camp David. For the first time, the President said, the U.S. would become a "full partner" in seeking to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. "My hope," he added, "is that this degree of personal interchange ... will be constructive." But, he conceded, "the prospects for complete success are very remote. Compromises will be mandatory. Flexibility will be the essence of our hopes...
...country he inherited 37 years ago was not only backward and riven by tribal conflict but notoriously unstable: there had not been a single peaceful succession since Cyrus the Great in the 6th century B.C. In the two decades before his army officer father, Reza Shah, seized power in a military coup in 1921, there had been five different Shahs, a civil war and several coups d'état. In 1941 the Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied...
...despite a personal appeal from Askew to chain President Allen Neuharth. The Miami News last week printed a letter from 47 employees objecting to the paper's contribution. "Nobody is censoring our copy," says Miami Herald Reporter Pat Riordan, "but this whole thing raises the appearance of a conflict of interest...