Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thank you for the brief history of the tragic Armenian-Turkish conflict of World War I [Aug. 23]. Articles like yours help people understand why the Armenians are resorting to violence. If the world had listened years ago instead of turning a deaf ear to the cries of the surviving Armenians, there would be no need for terrorist acts...
...area of the world is more torn by strife, more poisoned by age-old hatreds, more strewn with the seeds of potential superpower conflict than the Middle East. And yet nowhere are there brighter chances for creative U.S. diplomacy to put an end to incessant bloodshed and lead the way to peace. The greatest opportunity of all has arisen, paradoxically, from the death and destruction of the war in Lebanon, which has upset political allegiances and power structures. Last week President Ronald Reagan launched a bold and ambitious initiative to seize the historic moment...
...without significant incident, of the U.S.-mediated P.L.O. evacuation from Beirut, and meant that "we can now help the Lebanese to rebuild their war-torn country." But, he said, putting Lebanon back together should be only a start. "We must also move to resolve the root causes of conflict between Arabs and Israelis." He identified the most troublesome root as being the "homelessness of the Palestinian people," coupled with Israeli fear that fulfilling their demands for a homeland would give birth to a contiguous, Soviet-dominated terrorist nation bent on destruction of the Jewish state. Said Reagan: "The question...
Reagan implied that it is up to the U.S., as the only nation "in a position to deal with the key parties to the conflict on the basis of trust and reliability," to break the impasse. To do so, he recognized, Washington can no longer confine itself to the role of mediator. "It has become evident to me that some clearer sense of America's position on the key issues is necessary...
...President Douglas Fraser, 65, is the union leader who has been most intimately involved in labor and management's struggle with the issue of conflict or cooperation. Since May 1980, he has been a member of Chrysler's board of directors, and it was Fraser who urged his members to accept wage concessions in 1979 so that Chrysler could qualify for $1.5 billion in Government loan guarantees. He has also backed reductions in pay increases to help Ford and General Motors. But at the same time Fraser must figure out how to keep his membership satisfied...