Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest cycle of bloodshed and renewed stalemate intensified appeals for a rapid settlement of the 22-month-old conflict. Last week Iraqi President Saddam Hussein admitted that he was "favorably disposed" to Algeria's offer to serve as mediator between the two warring nations. He also suggested that the truce should become effective in early September, coinciding with the summit of non-aligned nations scheduled to take place in Baghdad. Bright banners already festoon the Iraqi capital, bearing the words WELCOME TO OUR DISTINGUISHED VISITORS in English, French and Arabic. For years Saddam Hussein has envisioned the summit...
...civil commissioner, last week donned his red tunic with the silver braid and put on his hat with the ostrich-feather plumes to open the first postwar session of the legislative council. He puckishly paraphrased Winston Churchill to thank the British liberators: "Never in the course of human conflict has so much been owed by so few to so many." Says an admiring islander of Hunt: "He knew us before, he knows our problems, he knows the way of life we had before and he knows the way of life the people want...
...Washington "profamily" strategy session of the religious right. Meanwhile, opponents unveiled a new coalition of 72 organizations at, naturally, a prayer breakfast. Buddhists and American Indians turned out in full regalia, joined by Jews, Muslims and Christians. The group charges that school devotionals create "the very interreligious tensions and conflict that the First Amendment was designed to prevent...
...want something done." Despite the fervor of that Citizen Kane outburst, which renewed speculation that Turner aspires to political office, Turner did not prevent CNN Commentator Daniel Schorr from contradicting him in an on-air reply. Schorr echoed Turner's concerns but opposed congressional action that might conflict with First Amendment guarantees against censorship. There has been no similar on-air performance by Turner since...
...more sharply divergent approaches to the same subject would be difficult to imagine. Piven and Cloward argue that politics is the expression of deeper conflicts between economic classes. To this familiar Marxist analysis they add the interesting notion that American history is largely the story of workers using democratic political freedoms to regain the traditional economic subsistence rights wrested away from them by a bourgeois-dominated state. This conflict--"Democracy vs. Capitalism"--eventually produced the Welfare State to protect workers (or "ordinary people," or the "poor" Pivan and Cloward interchange these phrases quite loosely) from the ravages of unemployment...