Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cujo takes its ill-natured time getting its potential victims, a mother (Dee Wallace, who played a less anxious mom in E.T) and her young son (Danny Pintauro), isolated from help and into deadly conflict with a possessed spirit. But it is worth waiting for the careful logic of Novelist Stephen King's plot to work itself out. For their demon is not from outer space or the weirder reaches of the occult. No, Cujo is a junkyard dog. But he is huge. And maddened by rabies. And thoroughly implacable in his need to kill. As he proved...
...French buildup was applauded by the government of Chadian President Hissene Habre, who had been imploring France to intervene directly. But there seemed little likelihood of imminent conflict between the French and Libyan forces. With some 300 miles of desert separating the Libyans at Faya-Largeau from the French forces at the forward redoubts of Sallal and Arada, it would be a bold venture for either side to make a military move. The Libyans are known to have ground-to-air missiles at Faya-Largeau. The French have conventional antiaircraft missiles, while Chadian troops in the forward positions have been...
...give himself some negotiating flexibility by decrying the American "pressure" even as he sends in troops to check the Libyan advance. It is altogether possible that the tactic is working. Gaddafi last week gave Mitterrand the benefit of the doubt, saying that France "was drawn into that conflict in spite of itself." This, as well as his repeated assertions that Libya is not directly involved in the conflict, may be Gaddafi's way of preserving a little room to maneuver in future negotiations...
...Jerusalem Post. Highways are flooded with new cars. Shop windows are filled with food processors, freezers and videocassette recorders. At Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, long queues of vacation-bound Israelis wait to board flights for Europe and the U.S. Despite more than three decades of costly conflict with its Arab neighbors, Israel enjoys a standard of living that ranks near that of many West European nations...
...publications on the left enjoy exceptional prestige. Clearly the most powerful is Spiegel, though it is also widely disliked for its unpleasantly dogmatic style. Its founder and publisher, Rudolf Augstein, 59, stridently argues that U.S. and West German interests inevitably are in conflict, particularly on the reunification of Germany. The weekly is by West German standards an enterprising investigative publication, and its ideology has not kept it from publishing stories that embarrass the Social Democrats. Last year Spiegel exposed payoffs to politicians, including SPD leaders, in exchange for tax breaks for the giant Flick conglomerate. More important, Spiegel...