Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Program on Nonviolent Sanctions in Conflict and Defense hopes to analyze and refine nonviolent methods of meeting the challenges of dictatorship, war, genocide, and oppression...
Professor Herbert C. Kelman, an overseer of the project, underscored the importance of Sharp's research. "Dr. Sharp's work is based on the realization that conflict is inevitable... To right injustice, it is necessary to engage in conflict," he said...
...basic form of TIME journalism was the narrative?chronological narrative when possible. And so it remains. But increasingly, exposition and analysis had to supplement narration. This fact reflects a larger reality. America is an epic of action, but more and more, action is stymied by complexity or conflict. In a sense, America today is less a "story" than an argument...
...talks. For the U.S., this period was an obviously trying time for those who believed in strong foreign deployment of American troops. The burden of some 200,000 U.S. soldiers in Europe, high relative costs and inflation, a simple desire to "bring our boys back home," and especially the conflict in Vietnam had already prompted Congressional debate on unilateral withdrawal. But few in the executive branches of the allied governments wanted this; it was believed that any substantial reduction in American troop strength would compromise Western conventional defenses, as well as sending Warsaw Pact nations a dangerous message about Western...
...unable to restrict some state social programs because of legal aid lawsuits. Even after it became clear two years ago that a bipartisan congressional majority was going to protect Legal Services, Administration officials continued their assault. Now, with Reagan appointees at the top, a new phase in the conflict has opened. The LSC is at war with itself...