Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument, of course, overlooks the fact that existing tactical nuclear warheads are also intended to kill people. More to the point, opponents believe that the neutron bomb's limited blast and short-lived radiation would invite its use in a crisis, thus increasing the danger of a conventional conflict escalating into a nuclear holocaust. But, as supporters note, NATO is a defensive alliance and the neutron bombs would only be used on allied territory to beat back a Soviet attack. Soviet propagandists have played artfully on the debate. In Pravda, for instance, President Leonid Brezhnev called the bomb...
...situation in which Smith and the internal nationalists are on one side, supported by the South Africans and ourselves, and on the other side are the rest of the African countries, and most of the ex-colonial world, supported by the Russians and Cubans. It would be a dreadful conflict." The key to avoiding such a conflict, Moose maintains, lies in an evenhanded approach to the transition. "Whether the transfer of power is resolved politically or militarily," he says, "will have an enormous impact on the whole region; it will determine whether we'll have a southern Africa...
...conflict began when the University reassigned carpenters to jobs outside their craft. Claiming a shortage of carpentry work, Harvard asked some of the carpenters to work as painters, lampers and roofers. The University stressed that the reassignments were "temporary, and involved no cut in pay;" however, the carpenters saw the move as a threat to their job security...
When union officials said on April 2 that they believed the carpenters would refuse to report, it looked like everything was going to start up again. But the workers reported as requested, and the conflict slipped off unnoticed--except for one thing...
With the strike over and the workers back in their jobs, the University notified them that all the employees who had participated in the walkout would be suspended for two days, without pay. Costello said the union planned to file a grievance protesting the suspensions, and another conflict looked imminent...