Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States does not determine what is going on in the Middle East," Kennedy said last Tuesday in a speech at Harvard. "The region has been in conflict for many years. The resolution is a lousy way of trying to influence...
With regard to Kennedy's statement, Trig Tarazi '89, president of the Society of Arab Students said, "The United States does determine what is going on when they give $45 billion to one side in a conflict and not the other. As for negotiations, they want to negotiate with groups other than the Palestinians; they try to talk with the Jordans and the Syrians," Tarazi said...
Councilors Alice K. Wolf and Saundra Graham voted against the resolution; Francis H. Duehay '55 abstained, saying that "I'm not involved in this very complex, political issue." David E. Sullivan, who serves as chief counsel to the Massachusetts Secretary of State, abstained to avoid a conflict of interest, as he does on all state-related issues...
...think we're heading for a major political conflict between the old and the young in this country...
...latent split among Haiti's Roman Catholics between the official church and Aristide's "prophetic" wing. Both work for human rights and justice, but the official church, which led the nonviolent popular uprising that forced Duvalier to flee, insists on orderly and deliberate change. The church's internal conflict has become yet another wound in Haiti's suffering and demoralized society...