Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed change apparently resolves the immediate conflict that arose this spring over the calendar however, it does not address the broader issue of College support for these activities...
That announcement may in the end mean a heightening of the undeclared war in Central America, exactly what Congress is worrying about. Last week a group of U.S. journalists received a personal glimpse of the clandestine conflict. At the invitation of Sandinista Leader Ortega, TIME Foreign Editor Henry Muller, Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan...
...acts of sabotage since 1981, the A.N.C. has caused millions of dollars in damage but only eight deaths. The Pretoria bombing, however, which took place in a crowded commercial district at the end of the workday, seemed designed to cause as many casualties as possible. "The Southern Africa conflict has just moved up a ratchet," said Peter Vale of the respected South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg. Said the Rev. Desmond Tutu, the black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg: "One act merely provokes another, and we are probably getting into a spiral of violence we cannot stop...
...painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work without conflict of interest in an art world that even then was a shady, manipulative place, if not the deep swamp it has since become. That was one reason why people trusted his taste. Another was his skill with boards and committees and his firm belief in public responsibility. He understood the difference...
...conflict is ironic, given the strikingly similar backgrounds of Wilson, 64, from St. Louis, and Hooks, 58, a Memphis native: both are lawyers who grew up in middle-class black families in Mississippi River cities during the Depression. Wilson began her latest maneuvers against Hooks at a special board meeting she convened last month. There she bitterly accused him of mismanagement, which she says has tarnished the N.A.A.C.P.'S reputation within the philanthropic community. She had the board pass a resolution reaffirming her position at the top of the N.A.A.C.P. hierarchy...