Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartheid system has.. of come into conflict with the demands of a modern industrial economy. On the contrary, the system of enforced segregation has proven highly profitable. By containing Blacks to bantustans far from available jobs, apartheid creates a massive, migrant labor force which is difficult to organize and easy to suppress. Even where the dictates of industrialization have required some modification of existing race laws--such as the presence of Black workers in white cities--the government has been careful to preserve the essential elements of control. These urban workers, for example, are labeled "temporary sojourners...
...former Interior Secretary Albert Fall in the Teapot Dome scandal). By the time of Watergate, the anticorruption ethic was so extensive that a number of Nixon officials ended up in jail after hush money was offered to the burglars. Noonan even suggests that the campaign against corruption may now conflict with other standards. Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which made it a crime for companies to bribe officials abroad, Noonan remarks that "no such law had ever been framed in this country or anywhere else." And with the Abscam sting, he writes, the Justice Department simply went...
...Washington announced that it will confer in Vienna this week with the Soviet Union on Middle East issues. It was the first time the U.S. had scheduled a meeting with the Soviets to formally take note of their views on the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1977, when the two sides jointly called for an international conference in Geneva under United Nations auspices. That initiative was superseded by Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem...
...Eastern and South Asian Affairs; the U.S.S.R. delegation will be headed by his equivalent in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Polyakov. These meetings consist primarily of dry recitations of each side's views on central issues. The U.S. agenda for the Middle East meeting, aside from the Arab-Israeli conflict, will probably include the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq conflict and Libya's mischief making...
...AGENT of this conflict, the character of Dolson is scarcely. Credible and even less like cable; with his wide-set eyes and square jaw, lvanek makes him appear almost Wagnerian in his stupidity. Presumably it is Dolson's duty, as the young idealist, the "hotheaded seminarian," to fight ceaselessly and crudely for truth, justice and the American way-sometime after his daily ten-mile run, presumably it is our duty to be charmed by the natural simplicity of his tantrums as when he a onetime bisexual, melodramatically denounces the Monsignor as a "homophobic autocral...