Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's letter to Reagan seemed vague enough to leave the Soviets the option of doing nothing at all. Indeed, despite official protestations at the beginning of the conflict that the Soviet Union supported the Arab cause "not in words but in deeds," the Kremlin fortunately has shown a greater willingness to use harsh rhetoric than to intervene on behalf of the two participants who depend heavily on Soviet political and military support, Syria and the P.L.O...
...long-running conflict in Cambridgeport concerns the type of development allowed under the new zoning. MIT devised plans that would preserve a substantial part of the area for office, research and other institutional uses...
Stephens denied the chance of a conflict of interest. "All this is just a question of complying with existing government regulations," she said...
...terrified; thick black smoke distorts once beautiful skylines. Such are the results of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, a foray that has left the Jewish state seemingly, more isolated than ever before. For the first time since its creation in 1948, Israel is the outright initiator of a conflict designed to garner security, not survival...
Opponents of the proposal say that it would promote a conflict of interest in enforcing immigration laws. "Responsibility for enforcement of that section of the Immigration and Nationalization Act would be removed from the Immigration Service and put in the hands of the institutions being regulated," explained Theresa Theobald, an aide to Tsongas...