Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD sets great store by its own traditions, but there are some other traditions to which it should defer. That is the lesson the University should take away from its current conflict with several Jewish student groups, who are urging Harvard to reschedule Commencement so it does not fall on the second day of the Jewish holiday Shavuos...
Noting that students first complained of the conflict in fall 1982, Kaufmann said, "the argument that its too late to change things doesn't hold water," adding "The University knew about it when it was much easier to change the date...
Steiner believes that very few people would be affected by the conflict. "At chest there are 30 students from all the schools...
...urgent problems to be faced in the coming decades by the entire human race in such fields as energy, the environment, the population explosion and world hunger. Little by little such common necessities may lay a restraining hand upon the forces that would move us toward violent conflict...
...Soviets, like the U.S., repeatedly carry out military exercises that are planned as part of a nuclear war. These include the simulated launching of nuclear missiles. Despite the widespread idea that any nuclear war would be over in a day or two, the Soviet maneuvers assume a prolonged conflict. In the fall of 1980, for example, they spent several days practicing the reloading of 25 to 40 silos housing giant intercontinental SS-18 missiles. But such maneuvers might have been primarily designed to show the U.S. that the Soviets believe they could survive and retaliate against a U.S. nuclear attack...