Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrating the tragedies that the changing ideals brought his family, Liang avoids explicit criticism. His continuing loyalty prohibits him from ever directly confronting the implications of what happened to his family, By bad luck or ideological foolishness, the Liang family became drawn into each new movement, and the result conflict between political and familial loyalties tore the family apart...
...they seemed to have underscored a growing incompetence on the part of the Salvadoran army. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have repeatedly warned the country's Defense Minister, José Guillermo Garcia, to concentrate on defending economically vital Usulután, where they believe the Salvadoran conflict ultimately will be won or lost. Instead, Garcia had sent the cream of his 22,000-member army into the northeastern department of Morazán, a mountainous guerrilla stronghold that is both economically and militarily unimportant...
...agents posted in the Third World alert Moscow to signs of political turmoil that could be fanned into "wars of national liberation." It is difficult to determine how critical a role KGB intelligence plays when the Politburo decides which rival political faction to back in a regional conflict. But it may have been because of such careful spadework that the Kremlin was able early on to examine Angola's struggle for independence and predict the winner, a nationalist group called the MPLA...
Concluding that Rodriguez's selections reflected a conflict of interest that could have unfairly influenced the outcome of the event, both Colantuono and band members agreed that a student panel of campus media critics would be more impartial...
After concluding that Rodriguez's selections reflected a conflict of interest that could have unfairly influenced the outcome of the Memorial Hall event--which features a $500 grand prize--both Colantuono and band members decide that a student panel of campus media critics would be more impartial...