Word: conflict
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...bankers as the enemy. In 1983 a Minnesota farmer and his son lured a bank president and a loan officer to their foreclosed ten-acre tract, ambushed and killed them. Last year a Nebraska farmer was killed in a shootout after firing at state troopers with a rifle. The conflict began earlier in the day when sheriff's deputies tried to serve him legal papers concerning $300,000 in overdue loans. This fall in Iowa two occasions were recorded in which farmers, carrying loaded guns in their trucks, thought about murdering bankers. "A year ago, I'd have said what...
Moscow is now Addis Ababa's principal ally in the Eritrean conflict. The Soviets have poured more than $3 billion in arms and 1,700 military advisers into famine-stricken Ethiopia, making Mengistu's 210,000-man army the largest and best-equipped in black Africa. Yet all that might has not blunted the will of the Eritrean rebels. The bloody, seesaw war, largely forgotten in the West and even in Africa, has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. TIME Reporter Edward W. Desmond recently traveled to Eritrea and filed this report...
...Peliculas: Archives of Latin American Conflict, 1890-1940, Harvard Film Archive...
...content to rely solely on eyewitness accounts, droves of journalists have gone through the Khyber Pass to report on the conflict. "There is no shortage of Western journalists working in Afghanistan," says Karen McKay, Executive Director of the Washington, D.C.-based Committee for a Free Afghanistan. "The problem is that Afghanistan just doesn't have a high editorial priority in our news media...
Participants in a Currier House panel discussion on South Africa last night agreed that the United States lacks the power to impose a solution to South Africa's domestic conflict on the Pretoria government...