Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect that Arab-Jewish hatred could be easily remedied. A poll of students last fall revealed that 60% of Jewish youngsters believed Arab citizens did not deserve full civil rights. Many Arab Israelis brush off the course as tokenism. "How can you teach coexistence . . . in the midst of conflict?" asks...
...meeting in Moscow with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Gorbachev dismissed the first round of the Geneva negotiations, completed in April, as "completely fruitless" and insisted that U.S. plans for space weapons, or Star Wars, research would "dramatically increase the threat of a truly global, all-destroying military conflict...
Lonesome Dove is not the place to ask it. McMurtry's lip service to psychological conflict is lost to his outsize talent for descriptive narrative. Filmmakers should have no trouble finding visual thrills. The standard stream crossing is perked up by an attack of water moccasins; there is a choice between a dandy sandstorm and a typhoon of grasshoppers; Blue Duck is a menacing piece of work with his necklace of amputated fingers; a bear fights a bull to a draw; and a dead hero is packed in salt and carted more than a thousand ceremonious miles to his grave...
...time the Class of 1960 was at Harvard: the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, shot down Gary Powers and the U-2 plane he piloted on a spy mission over Russian soil: China developed its own atomic bomb; the Suez Canal crisis brewed; Castro rose to power; and racial conflict in South Africa came to a head in the bloody Sharpeville riots...
...henceforth they would hold two working sessions a year to discuss the problem. Said a Soviet specialist in U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations in November: "We do not have much time to come to an agreement before nuclear weapons spread to more and more countries that could involve us in a conflict." One example that nuclear powers who abjure the nonproliferation treaty should be encouraged to follow is that of France. Despite their refusal to sign the treaty, the French as long ago as 1968 declared that they would abide by the accord in demanding international safeguards from any country that sought...