Word: conflict
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...scenario plunged the students into an international conflict in which both sides had already used nuclear weapons...
Axworthy's seminar is one of 15 offered this semester at the I.O.P. Open to undergraduates and graduate students, the informal groups examine politics and public policy issues. Other subjects include U.S. policy in Central America, gay and lesbian political participation, and the Arab-Israeli conflict...
Among the saddest victims of war are the illegitimate children left behind by the soldiers who go home at the end of a conflict. There are thousands of such offspring of U.S. military men still in Viet Nam. Many of these youngsters are outcasts, shunned by their maternal families and living at a barebones subsistence level In an effort to help solve the problem, Secretary of State George Shultz presented to Congress last week a proposal to admit 8,000 so-called Amerasian children to the U.S. over three years. "Because of their undisputed ties to our country, these children...
DALLAS--embroiled in growing racial conflict between geographically and economically divided whites and minorities; ruled in the city chambers by a group of patronizing rich white men who seek to hide facts such as one-third of adult Black men in the city are unemployed; ruled in the streets by police draped in the "shoot first" cowboy image, an image Ronald Reagan helped to foster in his Western movies--with all this, is a more appropriate symbol of what Republicans have been doing to this country than the booming business center they had wanted to show...
...torture and other forms of harassment since mid-1983 constitute the first sweeping crackdown against Christian activity since the Communist regime instituted a measure of toleration in 1979. The repression is aimed especially at a zealous Protestant revival occurring among the unsanctioned house churches, which are in increasing conflict with the government-approved Protestant organizations. Only last week, for the first time, a government newspaper confirmed the existence of a Protestant revival "fever...