Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Ortega, was pursuing "the policy of the big stick, the policy of gunboats, the policy of terror." The Sandinista leader warned later that Nicaragua was prepared to go "everywhere" (including, implicitly, the Soviet Union) to procure the combat aircraft it needs to check the contras. The state of conflict in each country...
Moreover, the almost obligatory human details of the early years, when stories might begin with the color of the President's necktie, have to some extent been pre-empted by TV. This fact, too, has a larger significance. In politics and elsewhere, TV has brought about a new conflict between appearance and reality, between "image" and substance. TIME must try, as must all print journalism, to find the substance behind the image...
Korea was a sort of transitional conflict, a civil war enacted with all the panoply of conventional battle, each side supported with allies and joining on an open field of battle. But then war tended to fade into jungles and a thousand ambiguities of costume and faction and political subtlety. Viet Nam was America's painful education in this new form. Overarmed and under informed, the Americans came onto the battlefield and found that it was all quicksand and fog. Viet Nam was morally impenetrable as well. Americans could not tell enemies from friends. The war became a terrible...
Both sides last week contained men who felt compelled to boast of tomorrow. Whatever hope there was of an understanding between Israel and the Arab states, short of years of debilitating conflict, lay in the fact that there were some who were boasting as little as possible...
...limits, which were set as firmly as limits can be set in the Europe of 1938. If the crisis proved anything with finality, it proved that modern communication and enlightenment of the peoples reduce the chances of an outbreak of war. For the first time in history, a major conflict had been settled by talking instead of shooting first...