Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, Shultz would seem ideally suited to smooth over this conflict. Like Haig, he is a devoted believer in cooperation with European allies; the expertise in dealing with international economic problems that Shultz acquired as Richard Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury is widely admired on both sides of the Atlantic. But Shultz is on record as opposed to the use of trade as a political weapon against the Soviets, and as a Bechtel executive he complained about the "light-switch diplomacy"-an on-again, off-again policy-preventing American companies from serving as reliable suppliers under international...
Suddenly, during a TV news report on the Israeli conflict in Lebanon, the screen goes blank. White lettering appears on a stark black background: "22 seconds deleted by Israeli censors." Or footage is left intact, but a legend is superimposed: "Cleared by Israeli censors." Night after night during the past couple of weeks, such unfamiliar signs of censors' intrusions have punctuated newscasts on ABC, NBC and CBS, usually in stories about suffering by Lebanese civilians in bombed-out Beirut...
When one network circumvented the censors, Israel cracked down more sternly. Israeli officials refused transmission to an ABC interview with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat, in which he claimed that the U.S. would "pay" for the conflict by seeing its relations with Arabs "destroyed." Hours later, ABC beamed out the Arafat footage from Herzliya anyway, purportedly as the result of a misunderstanding, and broadcast it on June 21. In response, the Begin government angrily denied ABC the use of its satellite facility and only lifted the ban two days later after ABC filed a letter of "regret" over the incident. Despite...
...central conflict in the film stems from Ivan's relationship with his wife Gloria (Tuesday Weld). Stricken with wanderlust, Gloria can't stay married to any one man for more than a few years and can't keep track of her kids, either. Practically at the outset, she runs off again, this time with a chubby accountant, and leaves the kids with Ivan. But the tykes are used to it; she's abandoned them before--once for each of their three fathers...
Virtually forgotten amid the headlines from the Middle East and South Atlantic is a stubborn conflict in Afghanistan, where determined guerrillas continue to resist a 100,000-strong Soviet occupation force. Last month, in the largest operation since their December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviets tried to root out the well-disciplined mujahedin of the lush Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul. TIME's William Dowell spent 22 days, disguised in a native tunic and baggy pantaloons, trekking over 16,000-ft. passes with a guerrilla caravan in order to witness the combat. Dowell's report...