Word: conflict
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Throughout the increasingly bloody conflict there have been charges that the separatists have been aided by India, which has a substantial Tamil population in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu, 22 miles from Sri Lanka across the Palk Strait. But in the past ten months, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has tried to broker a peace agreement between the Sri Lanka government and the insurgents. Last year he helped arrange two ceasefires, only to see the fragile agreement crumble. Sri Lanka's President J.R. Jayewardene, for his part, has offered greater political autonomy to the Tamils but rejects the idea...
Despite the careful structuring, it is doubtful that all the clients will be pleased. One potential conflict was resolved early last week when Needham announced that some of its executives were buying the company's Los Angeles office and forming a new agency of their own, taking along Honda and other clients. Automotive clients still represented by parts of the new holding company are Volkswagen and Audi (DDB) and Chrysler-Dodge (BBDO...
Ever since the end of World War II, a classic problem has been debated and redebated: the alleged conflict between American security interests and American idealism. In one view, America's strategic position in its global conflict with Communism, which is the greatest threat to democracy, must be the first consideration. In the other view, the moral values that America stands for are more important, and ultimately more powerful politically. Much of the argument, however, is artificial. The Carter Administration tried for a while to put idealism first, by cutting aid to repressive regimes, but soon had to make exceptions...
...workers -- were hardly criminal types. Whatever the verdict, the trial apparently has strengthened rather than discouraged the sanctuary movement. Partly because of the publicity surrounding the case, 16 U.S. cities and the state of New Mexico have proclaimed their territories sanctuaries for anyone fleeing political repression or armed conflict in any Central American nation...
...islands were harboring pirates who had been menacing Dutch ships. The Dutch declared war on the islands, but before any shots were fired, the British promised to resolve the pirate problem. The Netherlands recalled its fleet, but both the Dutch and the Scillonians technically remained in a state of conflict...