Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to manipulate people," said Laura D. Blackbuene, vice-president of the New York-based Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Inc. She will be conducting a study group entitled. "Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Applications in the Public Sector...
While the inquiry was debating the causes of the war, Britain's military was discussing a Ministry of Defense post-mortem of the campaign, published last month. Overall, experts concluded, the conflict vindicated arguments that Britain should retain a strike capacity in addition to its role in NATO. A public relations shambles over press censorship came in for considerable criticism, as did the Royal Navy task force's lack of a credible early-warning system against low-level air attack. "Had the Argentine air force been equipped with more up-to-date systems," noted one general...
...afterward would learn from the warden that she had killed every member of her family." He still exchanges letters with some prisoners. For this week's cover, Andersen probed the profound issues surrounding the ultimate punishment for a prisoner: execution. "The death penalty," Andersen concludes, "dramatizes the classic conflict between high-minded reason and visceral emotions...
Since Iran's unsuccessful attempt to invade Iraq last summer, the Iran-Iraq conflict has once again become "the forgotten war"-except for citizens of the two countries, who continue to suffer from the bloodletting that began when Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980. Iranian leaders still boast that they will sweep across to Iraq's western frontiers, eventually overthrowing the regime of President Saddam Hussein. But so far, Tehran has managed to capture only a thin sliver of Iraqi border territory as a result of its offensive last summer, at a cost of an estimated...
...name for himself, has chosen to steer a course that is at once more cautious and more daring. He has taken MGM/UA's largesse to mount a more elaborate version of the theme that solders his five earlier films: the collision between British culture and anarchic nature, a conflict that virtually defines the Australian experience. The scene is Indonesia in 1965, as the Sukarno government stumbles toward a coup that will eventually end the strongman's reign. In the streets, Communist marchers sing revolutionary songs with Whiffenpoof harmonies; in the white man's clubs, journalists and diplomats...