Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tawdry reprise of an old scandal. In a Washington courtroom where former Environmental Protection Agency Official Rita Lavelle stood trial for perjury last week, the familiar charges of conflict of interest and political manipulation flew once again. Former aides told how Lavelle had wept while they hastily removed whole briefcases of sensitive documents. Yet for all the melodrama, the accusations seemed almost irrelevant, an old story relegated to the back pages. Since the scandal climaxed last spring with the firing or resignation of the EPA's top echelon, the agency has been seemingly transformed into a model of probity...
Black workers have approached Black faculty, staff and students throughout the University to rally support for the workers' efforts to get a fairer shake from Harvard. After all, the conflict between seniority and affirmative action is a flashpoint of the struggle for racial justice in the context of fiscal austerity and job cutbacks. If we Third World students were up in arms about job opportunities for relatively privileged legal scholars, then we are righteously even more animated by the stark spectacle of Black workers and their families literally losing their livelihoods...
...drive the United States out of Western Europe, and thus by virtue of their power and the geographical facts become the dominant power on it continent. Short of that, the Soviets want to take the Western governments pay as high a political price as possible in internal dissension and conflict with one another in order to sustain a credible defense. Of particular importance in this effort is "the German card," that is, holding out the prospect of reunification of the two Germanies in exchange for a West German decision to leave NATO. As proposed in the 1950s in the Rapacki...
...sufficient conditions needed to truly restore the whole moral and psychological as well as military balance of forces in Europe include a northern European left which has it eyes open about the Soviet Union and is convinced that there is something very fundamental at stake in the conflict between East and West. Without that basis in the moral order, no amount of strategic brilliance or foreign policy sophistication will be able to keep the peace and sustain political freedom in Western Europe. The West has won this skirmish with the Soviets but its weak spots will take a long time...
...middle. The isolated incident of protestors throwing water balloons with red ink hurts the popularity views; in this sense, it goes too far. But any argument that appeals to patriotism and American values to force out respect is merely a tool of a political creed that shuns political conflict in support of the status...