Word: conflict
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...three fiscal years. It also attached eleven pages of conditions designed to curb human rights abuses by the Salvadoran government and to bring about "a dialogue, in good faith and without preconditions," between the government and the guerrillas. The aim is to achieve "an equitable political solution to the conflict." If the government refuses to participate, U.S. aid would be cut off within 90 days; if the guerrillas balk, the aid would continue...
...equipment that requires the presence of 4,800 to 6,000 Soviet military advisers and technicians. In what many diplomats saw as a blatant attempt to heighten tension in the area, the Soviets ostentatiously removed 110 diplomatic dependents from Beirut, as if to indicate that they feared an impending conflict...
What the U.S. fears most in the current situation is an accidental conflict. Says former National Security Council Member William Quandt, now a Brookings Institution fellow: "This does not appear to be the kind of deliberate buildup that we saw in anticipation of the 1973 war. But the danger is that it will be like 1967, when there was no real intent to go to war, but tensions rose and rose to the point where no one could find a way to back down." Declared State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg last week: "We have repeatedly noted that with Israeli...
...fields in a major metropolitan area satisfying the requirements of the Federation International de Football Association, soccer's governing body. Most stadium fields are not wide enough for soccer, have artificial turf or an inadequate seating capacity to host the games, or host baseball teams with schedules that would conflict with the games...
...plumbing, are sandwiched among routine theater business, tributes to friends and expressions of satisfaction. Missing are the two difficult men, father and former husband, who tempered the author's character and gave emotional texture to the earlier chapters. Having a life turn out well is a blessing, but conflict nearly always makes better copy than contentment. -By R.Z. Sheppard