Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ensuing conflict, the Viet Cong were able to cast themselves as defenders against a foreign invader, a time-honored role in Vietnam since the Mongol invasions in the middle ages...
...images of the raid--helmeted officers swinging billy clubs at students, blood spilled on the sidewalks of Harvard Yard--brought even moderate students into open conflict with the administration...
...major issue of the '69 strike was the corporate domination of Harvard. Today we see corporate Harvard in continued conflict with its Buildings and Grounds, Food Service and Clerical and Technical employees. Harvard fought hard to deny recognition to the Clerical and Technical workers' union, throwing the University's legal resources into a court battle--in which Harvard's case was thrown out, and the University was chastised by the judge for frivolous legal maneuvers. How long will the University's resources continue to be devoted to opposing social justice...
Much of the intensity of the '69 conflict came from the perception that Harvard acted not as an independent academic institution but as a hand-maiden of government policy and corporate interests. In recent years we have seen a spectacle of sycophancy at the Kennedy School of Government. Most egregious was the Kennedy School's award to former Attorney General Ed Meese. But the pattern hgas been borne out by many other events, such as allowing Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams to dictate the conditions of his appearance at the K-School, "disinviting" former ambassador Robert White, an administration...
...wider perspective, the disaster points up the unresolved conflict between American desires for an unspoiled environment and demands for more energy that has long bedeviled national policy. Immediately the crack-up of the Exxon Valdez gives powerful new ammunition to environmentalists fighting against a proposal to allow oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the last large tracts of U.S. wilderness virtually untouched by man. The proposal, which has the support of President Bush, has passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, but it may be delayed by the Prince William Sound disaster. Says Senator...