Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Courcel, holder of a psychology degree from the Sorbonne, latches on to this internal conflict as a dramatic device. The results are somewhat predictable and schematic. She relies heavily on the diaries of Tolstoy and his wife Sophia Andreyevna, memoirs, letters and interpretive readings of the novels and essays. These materials are tailored to fit what appears to have been a predetermined conclusion: Tolstoy reconciled his warring selves only when, ten days before dying in 1910, he fled farm and family...
...York suburb. Mayor Ray Flynn, who lives in Southie, began his political career in the mid-1970s as a community leader in the disastrous fight against school desegregation. But now Flynn is working with black and white community groups and federal officials to resolve rather than raise conflict. Last month two black families became the first in more than a decade to move into public housing in South Boston. Instead of protests designed to inflame passions, the initial move was preceded by prayer services encouraging goodwill, and it was completed in peace...
There are three welfare "conundrums" which Ellwood discerns in the current system. First, there is what he dubs the security-work conundrum, in which the demands of providing security for those whose earnings place them below the poverty line conflict with the desire to make those people self-sufficient workers. Then, there is the targeting-isolation conundrum, which contrasts the need to identify and aid specific groups of the poor with the problem of isolating and stigmatizing those same people...
Schlesinger is right that "nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy hold NATO together" but wrong to accuse Dukakis of failing to understand that truth. Part of what deters conventional war in Europe is the possibility that such a conflict would escalate to general nuclear war. That is why our allies were so concerned when President Reagan, during his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, was willing to abolish nuclear weapons and thus abandon nuclear deterrence altogether...
Peace may be just around the corner in the eight-year-old conflict between Iran and Iraq, but it could take a while for the two sides to get there. In the wake of Iran's surprise announcement two weeks ago that it would agree to a cease-fire, Iraq embarked on a campaign designed to maximize its position in a postwar era. By attempting to gain more leverage in negotiations, however, Baghdad risked encouraging Tehran to return...