Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hoover Institution: "The image of Arabs standing together has been shattered." The Iraqis were particularly angry at Syria's Hafez Assad and Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, both for their "betrayal" of the P.L.O. and for their support of Iran in the gulf war. Since that conflict began 23 months ago, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has moved away from the hard-line states and into the circle of moderate states, which includes Saudi Arabia and Jordan...
...greatest fear of American policymakers has been that the Arab-Israeli conflict would gradually, or perhaps suddenly, drive other, traditionally moderate Arabs toward Gaddafi's militant banner. U.S. officials are concerned that Gaddafi-ism, as his brand of uncompromising opposition to the existence of any Jewish state in the area is sometimes called, will spread, and along with it his influence...
Late last week another tense conflict over what books students may read ended with a compromise in a group of Long Island, N.Y., suburbs. The board of the Island Trees Union Free School District, based in Levittown, voted 6 to 1 to return to school libraries the nine books it banned in 1975. The removal of the books, which included Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, sparked national controversy and a legal challenge that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruled in June that the ban might violate...
...director of the Hudson Institute, infuriated liberals of the early '60s with two books that can still start an argument. On Thermonuclear War and Thinking About the Unthinkable asserted a simple premise: since an exchange of atomic weapons was possible, speculation on the circumstances and consequences of such conflict was natural and useful...
...rate of the College's struggling Afro American Studies Department may be discussed this year. Formed more than 10 years ago after a bitter conflict between students and administrators, the department now suffers from a lack of student interest. Last spring, no member of the class of 1985 opted to major in Afro...