Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...implementation of the ten-year-old U.N. Resolution 435 calling for the territory's independence. The accord is expected to be signed by the U.S., South Africa, Angola and Cuba at a ceremony in Brazzaville. Though a hopeful start, the accord leaves Angola's underlying dispute unresolved: the tribal conflict that pits some 310,000 fighters loyal to Marxist President Jose Eduardo dos Santos against Jonas Savimbi's tenacious UNITA guerrilla movement...
Over the longer run, however, the trend toward inequality is rife with the potential for social and political conflict -- not just between classes but within the middle class. The differing prospects between its college-educated members and those who go no further than high school is one potential source of antagonism. Another is the growing cleavage between young and old. While young couples wonder if they can ever buy their dream house -- or any house -- people of their parents' generation are sitting on a gold mine. Many have paid off low-interest mortgages on houses bought a quarter-century...
Another example of the law of unintended consequences was that welfare and other poverty programs helped foster a dependency on government. The idea of welfare has always been problematic, for it reflects a conflict between two archetypal American values: generosity and self-reliance. Yes, we must offer the poor a hand. But doesn't such help undermine their ability to help themselves? Conservative scholars like Charles Murray contend that Aid to Families with Dependent Children provided an economic incentive for women to have babies out of wedlock and for men to avoid supporting their children. Murray goes...
...physics or housing the homeless? Yes and no. Yes, NASA could save money in the long run by having a clear goal, but why is money so scarce? Every year the U.S. Government invests some $300 billion in a Manichaean mythology that the world is divided by an eternal conflict between the forces of good and evil, light and dark. Why not invest instead in a different mythology? Why not invest a pittance of the military budget in a new mythology of cooperation and evolution, of the earth as a living organism with eyes molded from stardust, still dumb...
...these grim facts, the rabbis' letter is thin in commentary. While there are no totally innocent victims in the tragic Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is Israel which dominates and oppresses the Palestinians, not the reverse. There is no possible justification for Israel's heinous actions, and the rabbis do a great disservice to all involved parties by obscuring and implicitly excusing them. Robert Weissman '88-'89 Jaron Bourke...