Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite their conflict over these homelands, many Hopi and Navajo have become friends through business dealings or school. Hopi Chairman Sidney and Navajo Chairman Peterson Zah were schoolmates, but as Sidney says, "When I was elected, the friendship took a vacation." Sidney threatens to break a sacred buckskin treaty wand if the Navajo do not evacuate Hopi land, which would signify the complete collapse of an ancient vow, and he refuses to entertain notions of a land swap or cash deal to settle matters. Each side is waging a sophisticated publicity campaign, assisted by experienced outside activists. Indeed...
...tests on the job. Tom Hayden, the '60s activist who led the Students for a Democratic Society and is now a California assemblyman, takes a slightly mellower view. "I think this country is freer than I thought true in the 1960s," he says. He worries about the perennial American conflict between individualism and community responsibility. "At this point," he thinks, "we've tipped too far toward private interests." As Hayden says, the '60s were incalculably important in defining the meaning of freedom in the U.S. today. The '60s shook loose new forces in American society, vastly expanding the American sense...
...payroll of the CIA. Urban told the Post that the U.S. could have prevented the subsequent arrests and internments by warning Solidarity of the imminent government action. He also charged that by remaining silent, the U.S. demonstrated that it had no interest in averting a "bloody conflict" in Poland. Urban demanded that the Post confront the Reagan Administration with his charges...
...direct a form of social speech as it had once been in the city-states of the Renaissance. Characteristically, Rivera mythologized the impact of Mexico on his work after he returned in 1921 --and yet, in a way, he was telling the truth: "Gone was the doubt and inner conflict that had tormented me in Europe. I painted as naturally as I breathed, spoke or perspired. My style was born as children are born, in a moment . . . after a torturous pregnancy of 35 years." His idea of public art, though secular and materialist, turned out to possess an immense sacerdotal...
This year Lakhdhir watched the council becomepolarized as the liberal activists and the moreconservative report-writers came into conflict."In past years, we all had a common vision. Thisyear that vision has splintered," she says...