Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read these Soviet statements. But it is also a warning to the American people . . . not to see conflict as inevitable, accommodation as impossible, and communication as nothing more than an exchange of threats...
...some people become addicted to alcohol if most do not? The reasons, says Vaillant, are as complex as people. Once hooked, argues Vaillant, an alcoholic drinks from habit and not to resolve conflict...
...bodies of the newsmen were carefully stripped, washed and turned face down, while their clothes were burned, in accordance with the traditional rites of Andean exorcism. The investigating commission called attention to a fundamental difference between "a Western judicial system and another-archaic, traditional, hidden and sometimes in conflict with the other-which rules the lives and customs of the high Andes...
...several years, in keeping with South Africa's policy of apartheid, the government has tried to persuade the 7,000 black farmers of Driefontein to move to black "homelands" in the desolate Kangwane and Kwazulu regions. The blacks have bitterly resisted the move, and last week the conflict turned bloody...
...conflict came to a head when Mkhize called a public meeting in the yard of Driefontein's school buildings to discuss the issue. Holding a bullhorn, Mkhize delayed his introductory speech to the 300 people present, waiting for more to arrive. Suddenly, a police van roared into the schoolyard and screeched to a halt. Flanked by a black officer, Police Constable J.A. Nienaber, a white, declared that the gathering was illegal. When no one moved, he threw a tear-gas canister into the crowd and then struck Mkhize in the face. The angry crowd surged toward the police, jostling...