Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next day the Wall Street Journal disclosed that in March Deaver sounded out Fred Fielding, the departing White House counsel, about a job with Deaver's firm. At the time, Fielding's office happened to be conducting an inquiry into possible conflict-of-interest violations by Deaver. Fielding was not interested in the job feeler, but he quickly withdrew from the probe...
...succession of jobs, including posts at some prestigious think tanks in Mexico City and Washington, Leiken produced papers on Soviet strategies in Latin America. His work, however, rarely received much public notice. In early 1984 he edited a collection of essays called Central America: Anatomy of a Conflict, which took the Reagan Administration to task for promoting confrontation rather than negotiation in Central America. It aroused notice among Democratic Congressmen who opposed Reagan's policies, but Leiken's reputation remained limited mainly to the specialized world of Latin American policy...
...last spring's production of Noel Coward's Hayfever. The Lowell House Drama society must like this sort of theater. Like Hayfever, You Never Can Tell has it's share of outrageous children, a stubborn matriarch, and romantic entanglements. But Shaw, of course, must add a touch of class conflict, feminism and a little political commentary...
...such counterterror tactics conflict sharply with what one Italian airport official calls the "commercial philosophy" of Western airlines. Says an Interior Ministry official in Rome: "A commercial airport is asked to give tourists a pleasant, welcoming image. Is this consonant with stripping passengers, body checks and shaking out their clothes?" Such inconveniences on the ground may be the price that travelers pay for peace of mind...
...neither side has shown much interest in a negotiated settlement. That stirs uneasy memories of the 17-year civil war, in which 500,000 people were killed, and the failure of the last democratically elected civilian government to resolve the conflict. The result: the 1969 military coup that brought Nimeiri to power...