Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice, to go or not, which everyone of draft age must face and answer whenever the United States nears the posibility of war. I feel a war with Libya might be necessary and justified. I would support the war policy of my government by serving in the conflict...
This personal level of choice by those who acually fight is a recent progression in our democracy, left perhaps by the Vietnam war, although some would argue it existed long before that conflict. The personal level of war should not be taken for granted and then forgotten: it must be an integral part of our democracy which is based on natural rights. Because war entails such grave actions, failing to consider the reasons for it and responding only to national directives is inhuman. If an individual doesn't ponder his reasons to go to war he loses something...
...provocation so important to the decision whether to fight? War is such a break from even the coldest of cold war diplomacies. Indeed it is so immoral to begin with, that the deed which precipitates a conflict becomes by far the most significant event. Some have blamed the United States for discriminatory economic practices against the Japanese during the 1930's and have said this policy led to W.W. II. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor was such a leap from hardball diplomacy it made the personal decision to fight, let alone the national one, simple...
...second policy statement is the "Faculty of Arts and Sciences Statement of Policy on Conflicts of Interest" (Conflict of Interest Policy). This policy was developed by a committee of the Faculty and was voted by the Faculty on November 10, 1981 and by the President and Fellows of Harvard College on March 1, 1982. The policy acknowledges that the individual rights of faculty must be carefully weighed against the fact that a faculty appointment is "fulltime in the most inclusive sense." The policy emphasizes the importance of disclosure and consultation with designated officials of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...director of Amax, Inc. Reed made $427,000 by acquiring Amax stock options in March 1981, just before a takeover offer from the Standard Oil Co. of California ballooned the value of his purchase. In Alexandria, Va., jurors found former Assistant Navy Secretary George Sawyer not guilty of violating conflict of interest laws by allegedly failing to report that he had held job interviews with executives of General Dynamics Corp. in 1983, while dealing with the company's contracts at the Pentagon. Navy Secretary John Lehman testified that Sawyer had informed him at the time of his interest in finding...