Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget that the Germans, who used to cut off the hands of local villagers, only controlled the territory for 50 years. After their defeat in World War I, they left not only a legacy of maiming, but the illegitimate name of South-West Africa as well. This bogus conflict over nomenclature would be as if the Germans had changed the name of France to "Southwest-Germany" after World War II; the French would still call their land France, and it is doubtful that Ms. Schwartz or anyone else would dispute the validity of their claim...
...conflict within the organization now threatens to tear it apart. One faction, led by Saudi Arabia, includes neighboring Persian Gulf producers like the United Arab Emirates, and does not want to lower its production further to let the other side raise its output. The opposing faction, which includes Iran, Nigeria and Indonesia, desperately needs income and is eager to pump every drop of oil that it can sell, even if that sends prices plummeting. Iran, which has become the spokesman for this group, is spurred by the need to finance its two-year-old war of attrition with Iraq...
Right now we're frozen into the ice so tightly that we may get to the point where only a bomb can blast us out. A conflict in China or the Middle East or any place could lead to the ultimate disaster. We've got to avoid that...
George F. Kennan's answer is that these deployments have become such a dangerous fact of life because American leaders have too often failed to think realistically about their consequences. Even a "limited" nuclear conflict would, in his opinion, quickly lead to a transcendent catastrophe. "There is no issue at stake in our political relations with the Soviet Union ... which could conceivably be worth a nuclear war," writes the dean of American Kremlinologists. Therefore the vow to retaliate against Soviet aggression with the American nuclear arsenal quite simply does not make sense to him. It is either a bluff...
...comedies like this. Nowadays, when the shows that used to be off-Broadway are on the main stem, and Broadway shows are running in the little houses, things like this open less glitzily. But the formula is as ever: one set, six characters, some brisk banter and a simple conflict in values bobbing along the sparkly surface...