Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infamous CIA manual on guerrilla warfare might have been written with the jungles of Nicaragua in mind, but its chief effect so far has been to provoke conflict in Washington. Last week skirmishes were raging not only between the Reagan Administration and Capitol Hill but within the CIA. Five middle-level agency officials, targeted to be disciplined for their part in drafting the contentious primer, said they were being used as scapegoats. Congressional critics charged that the five were victims of a cover-up designed to protect senior officials, notably CIA Director William J. Casey, who has supervised the covert...
Washington will maintain its public position of neutrality in the Iraq-Iran conflict; it has had no diplomatic relations with Iran since ties were broken in 1980 during the hostage crisis. At best, recognition of Iraq will create a de facto axis linking Washington, Baghdad and Moscow, which is Iraq's ally, that could help bring Iran to the bargaining table...
...overstating the inevitability of Sikh, Hindu antagonism, then, Western observers have misrepresented the true nature of the Golden Temple controversy. The conflict was not simply one of conflicting groups, but of a radical seet of Sikhs committed to violence. The Sikhs who had been using the temple as their base were gathered under the fanatical but charismatic Bhindranwale, an extremist leader who was killed in the Golden Temple fighting. His Khomeini-like messianic appeal included public speeches glorifying violent means aimed at acquiring a separate Sikh nation. "It should be clear to all Sikhs...that we are slaves and want...
...England, in spring, candidates must talk about the price of heating oil. In New York candidates must cultivate Jews, blacks, Italians, to the exclusion of other groups. In Texas and California they must court Hispanic voters. In the farm and industrial states they must woo farmers whose needs conflict with those of steelworkers in Pennsylvania or Ohio...
Reagan can be decisive: I remember speaking with Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, just after the February decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. Essentially there had been a conflict between State and Defense-Defense had wanted to get out of Lebanon even before the October massacre, while State kept insisting our presence was necessary. While preparing to watch Lauren Bacall perform in Woman of the Year Sunday afternoon, Feb. 5, Weinberger had been summoned to an immediate meeting of the National Security Council at the White House. The Republican politicians had long wanted out of Lebanon ("The forget period...