Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that "disputes should be settled by discussion and never by force." Washington's purpose in backing the Argentine-sponsored resolution was actually far more pragmatic: to regain some of the good will that the U.S. lost in Latin America by taking Britain's side in the conflict. U.S. diplomats pointed out that they had lobbied successfully to water down the resolution before voting for it. Among other things, the U.S. persuaded Argentina to drop a reference to the Falklands as a colony. In addition, State Department officials helped to insert a phrase to imply a formal...
...products of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the considerable attention to Israeli policies and practices offered in the media, has been a significant change in the attitude of Americans to the Israeli-Arab conflict. For the first time, in a movement that is nationwide and that is grassroots in character, the taboo has been lifted from the discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab conflict...
...know what is at the root of problems that appear to be endemic to the region and chronic to relations between Israel and the Palestinians. This nationwide opening has charged the nature of the discussion of the Middle East. It has become possible to deal with the Israeli Palestinian conflict as a national conflict involving state power and not simply a conflict mystified in apolitical terms that preclude discussion and forbid questioning...
...years after the enactment of CHINS legislation, conflict persists on the question of how to deal with status offenders. Now the issue is whether to decriminalize further--to take such children entirely out of court and to treat them exclusively through the social service agency network...
...main issue in the conflict is management's demand for more control over airline operations. As things now stand, the eight employee unions have the power to veto most policy decisions. Airline officials would like, for example, to be able to lay off workers without union approval. Having lost $202 million since 1978, management argues that 1,000 of El Al's 5,000 employees must be dismissed for the carrier to be profitable...