Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nuclear war is more horrible than any conflict it could possibly resolve...
...Organization against Chairman Yasser Arafat, Syria is intent on seizing control of the Palestinian movement. Finally, by bullying and cajoling its Arab neighbors, Syria is building what it hopes will be a united front to reach its ultimate objective: a comprehensive, made-in-Damascus solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict...
Despite the escalation of tensions, Damascus has told Washington privately that it does not want to go to war over Lebanon. If a conflict were to break out, however, Syria could only gain: no matter how badly its forces fared against the U.S., standing up to the American giant would strengthen Syria's credentials to be Arab standardbearer. Though the terms of the 1980 Soviet pact with Damascus have never been revealed, officials in Moscow have hinted that Soviet troops would enter the fray only if Syrian territory were invaded. According to British intelligence officials, Moscow would unleash the Soviet...
...siege seriously weakened the P.L.O. and should permit Assad even more control over its affairs. The conflict, however, will switch from open warfare...
...fundamental problem is not with commissions. It is with a political system so weak at the center that it has grown addicted to them, so paralyzed by ideological conflict that it needs to call on collections of wise men to do the work of Government. Republicans stop a Democratic Administration from getting arms control through Congress; then Democrats stop a Republican Administration from getting its arms (MX) through. A commission (Scowcroft's) is then convened to plead the obvious: that both are linked and must get through together or not at all. A Republican Administration wants more...