Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier that year in Hanover, Dartmouth police had elected to battle and to arrest students almost daily. As the conflict raged on campus, the Hanover school's national image suffered severely. Twenty-five percent fewer Black students decided to enter the freshmen class this year...
...says, to dig too far beneath the surface while writing for a daily paper. "The general American public is probably not as informed as it might be because the press--and I'm as guilty of this as anyone--tends to portray the highlights of the military and political conflict. When you're a reporter in Israel you're running constantly trying to keep up with events...
...neither Arab nor Jew," he writes. "By culture and creed, I should suffer neither pain nor passion over the causes and battles that entangle the two peoples. And yet...I cannot help caring." What led him to care was "the human dimension" of the Arab-Israeli conflict: "The question of how Arab and Jew saw each other began to emerge as...the target of my search for understanding...
Arab and Jew is the result of his search. In examining the human dimension of the Arab-Jewish conflict, Shipler pays only passing attention to its diplomatic, military and political aspects. Instead, he focuses on Arab and Jewish images of one another and how the two peoples interact where they live together under Israeli authority...
There is much more conflict on issues among the general-election candidates, although local media have taken less of an interest in the campaign. The two Independents, for example, favor Question 1 on the referendum slate, which if passed would permit the state to regulate or prohibit abortion. Barrett opposes...