Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels. No one knows whether the Soviets will mount cross-border air raids to thwart the rebels' designs, or if Washington intends to keep open its not-so-covert arms pipeline through Pakistan to the rebels. But even if the superpowers bow out entirely, both sides in the Afghan conflict have enough stockpiled arms to keep the conflagration raging for months. "No one is operating under any illusions," warns a U.S. specialist on Afghanistan. "The situation is going to get a lot nastier...
...from none other than his chief ethics officer, C. Boyden Gray, the man responsible for vetting the nomination of John Tower and advising others in the Administration that they must give up outside income and jobs: Secretary of State James Baker, for one, would have to resolve the potential conflict posed by his holdings in Chemical New York Corp., a bank that holds a significant amount of Third World debt...
...believe that all countries should respond to the emerging opportunity to put an end to the drawn-out conflict by promoting the complete and fast settlement of the situation," the Soviet official said...
...Yeah, I've been feeling kind of good lately, too. I finally got that Bill Safire off my back. He was giving me a hard time in his Times column just because I was running my family business. Those Reagan boys never told me collecting outside money was a conflict of interest. Anyway, I just resigned from the company...
Bush: Boydsy's right, Johnny. You're having a hard enough time convincing those Senate boys the $750 Grand you got from those defense contractors won't result in a conflict of interest when you become secretary. I mean, I know you have the discipline to stay out of things that could help your former bosses, but you still gotta convince that committee. That's gonna be even tougher now that they think that campaign contribution you received was illegal...