Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richardson press secretary David Gilroy Countered yesterday that Shamie has tried to focus on the tax issue to detract attention from Richardson's proposals for a nuclear freeze, conflict prevention, and environmental issues. But he added, "Taxes are obviously a very emotional issue...
Robert M. Coles '50, professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, is no stranger to conflict, but he may have waded into the hottest controversy of his career--children and nuclear war. For several years now, a group of doctors and psychiatrists, many of them Harvard-affiliated, has put forth the idea that the threat of nuclear war poses a unique psychological danger to children--an idea with which Coles now takes issue...
...theories vary and sometimes conflict, but all attempt to make U.S. officials share in the blame for the tragedy with the Soviet commanders who ordered the unarmed airliner to be destroyed. Some maintain that the Korean plane was on a U.S. spy mission, as the Soviets claim. Others charge that while the plane may have been inadvertently off course, U.S. military trackers saw it go astray, issued no warning and coldly exploited the situation to see how Soviet air-defense systems would react. Concerned over the notice such arguments were getting, the State Department held a briefing last week...
...abetted-he could not say. And the movie is resolute in its refusal to speak for him or, indeed, for anyone caught in the narrative web it constructs out of loosely woven naturalistic fibers. As it demonstrates through its minor figures the stupefaction that permanent conflict imposes on its victims, the film permits Cal to draw closer and closer to the older woman, upsetting the silent compromise she was on the verge of making with life. He gets a job on the farm and then a place to live there and, finally, becomes her lover before his inescapable past...
After visiting Nicaragua last year, Pope John Paul ordered Ratzinger to begin special examination of the theological conflict. The Pope has repeatedly opposed political violence and hate, and in a recent message to bishops in Africa said that the church cannot use "analysis based on class distinction and class struggle" when it aids victims of injustice...