Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. The plot, a study in conflict and alienation, revolves around a brilliant and selfish woman caught between fierce inner pride and contempt for those nearest her, between past choice and present entrapment, between a stifling marriage and fascination with an old admirer now involved with another woman...
...meeting was largely organizational. We elected officers, and voted to change meeting times so that the Radcliffe feminist group's meeting time wouldn't conflict with ours--so gay women on campus could attend both groups. We listened to a short presentation by a representative of the Cambridge Gay Political Caucus, who talked about Saundra Graham's campaign for state rep from Cambridge. We broke up for cider and cookies, and I was intimidated by the fact that everyone but me seemed to know everyone else, so I left...
Exploiting the breakthrough, Sadat last week invited "all the parties to the conflict-including Israel-to meet here in Cairo and prepare for a Geneva conference." He told the cheering Egyptian national People's Assembly that he was prepared to be host to such a meeting as early as this week. Sadat's announcement caught the eligible participants-Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviet Union-by surprise. The Israelis indicated that they were willing to attend. Syria, seething over Sadat's overtures to Israel, rejected the invitation flatly. The U.S. was interested...
Nevertheless, Carter, Vance and their colleagues contributed significantly, if not always deliberately, to the atmosphere that made the Sadat-Begin summit possible. Whatever faux pas he committed along the way, the President succeeded in getting two of the principals in the conflict to lift their eyes from procedural details and ponder the prospect of a final, comprehensive settlement. From the outset of his Administration, Carter had made clear that the old step-by-step approach employed so effectively by Henry Kissinger was in danger of becoming a treadmill, and that haggling over credentials, timetables and terminology had become an excuse...
...Soviets, who are members of several conferences, have again agreed to talk about joining others on a conditional basis and have even held some off-the-record conversations. But any efforts to get them to participate may be sunk by a conflict in Washington. In 1975 the Russians bowed to U.S. pressure to enter key North Atlantic price-fixing conferences, but the Justice Department "loused up the deal," in the words of one New York shipping executive, by threatening antitrust action against the American members. Since 1916, U.S. members of shipping conferences have been exempt from antitrust laws, but Justice...