Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some suggest that an assassination attempt could be considered more moral than an all-out attack. Neil Livingstone, president of Washington's Institute for Terrorism and Subnational Conflict, proposes that a precise covert action directed toward a single figure may be preferable to a military raid. Says Livingstone: "It is far more humane to get the legitimate bad guy than his baby daughter and innocent civilians." But it seems the Administration simply wanted to have it both ways. That is, it wanted to send a message to terrorists in general and a knockout punch to one in particular...
WASHINGTON--The government's top ethics officer asked the Justice Department yesterday to investigate whether Michael K. Deaver, a former White House aide who operates a lobbying business, violated conflict-of-interest laws...
...letter, the senators argue that there is sufficient evidence of possible conflict of interest to warrant a probe by a special prosecutor, said Peter F. Smith, Biden's press secretary...
...these dangers. It is common knowledge that most departments of Middle East studies in the United States pay scant if any serious attention to Israel, and that the field is highly politicized. What American scholars of the Middle East write is often not far removed from the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nor is the fact that Nadav Safran is both Jewish and supportive of the broad contours of Israeli policy incidental to events of the last six months. Is not the politicization of this discipline and the role played by Middle East politics in American scholarship as equally important and interesting...
...would be happy to have public discussion of the issues, though I fear that E4D is trying to make a bigger conflict than really exists between the two groups," Rudnick said...