Word: conflict
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...year is 1992. A local conflict has closed the Strait of Malacca, blocking Japanese tankers laden with Persian Gulf oil from entering the South China Sea. The Japanese Prime Minister places a call to the White House...
Today the discussion reflects an increasingly international-minded youth. More than 60% of Japan's 122 million people were born after the war. Innocent of both the conflict and its aftermath, the young are less concerned with Japan's uniqueness or other obsessions of the national psyche. They travel widely, identify with youths of other nations, and are as familiar with Michael Jackson and Budweiser beer as they are with Toyotas and Sony Walkmans...
...Nagorno- Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Last week the issue took a surprising turn, when the Armenian supreme soviet, or parliament, voted in favor of annexing Nagorno-Karabakh, contradicting the position taken in March by Moscow party leaders. The vote also put the Armenian leaders in conflict with their counterparts in Azerbaijan, who had decided earlier in the week not to relinquish control of Nagorno-Karabakh. It was the first time in Soviet history that one of the 15 constituent republics had so directly opposed either Moscow leadership or a sister republic. That issue and other disruptive nationality...
...William Webster and his successor, William Sessions, approved the investigation under the guidance of William Weld, then chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, and Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns. Both officials resigned from their posts in late March, after maintaining that Attorney General Meese may have violated conflict-of- interest laws. Word of the inquiry was kept away from Meese until just before Burns left. The reason: their boss was mentioned in one taped conversation between suspects in the probe. Only after investigators were satisfied that Meese was not implicated did Burns brief the Attorney General...
...Louis warrant, the FBI indicated that its inquiry was aimed at finding evidence of bribery of public officials, conflict of interest, theft of government property, mail fraud, wire fraud, false statements and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Whether any of those crimes can be proved against anyone remains to be seen. As rumors of impending indictments swept the beleaguered Pentagon, Carlucci took a calm view. He advised, "Let's not jump off the cliff before we find out what we're talking about here." That may take a while, but the timing could be awkward. If the Justice Department sticks...