Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appointment of a well-respected special prosecutor to handle violent racial criminal cases is an important step to alleviate the problem of conflict between the races...
...could use another victory to erase the memory of a highly publicized defeat. In 1985 and 1986, Rogers helped orchestrate what turned into a long and bitter walkout by meat-packers at a Hormel plant in Austin, Minn. That brought him into conflict with the Union of Food and Commercial Workers International, which came to disapprove of the walkout and such stratagems as dispatching pickets to Hormel plants that were not on strike. Hormel eventually outlasted the strikers, and 650 jobs were eliminated...
...will it? Among military and political analysts in the West, hope is growing that at long last the war in the gulf may be winding down to a defensive stalemate. For the first time since the war began, the military initiative in the conflict, which has caused an estimated million casualties on both sides, has decisively turned in favor of Iraq. Morale among Iran's soldiers is said to be low. "The Iranians have suffered a tremendous psychological blow," says former Gulf Diplomat James Placke. "It has left them in political disarray...
...natural campaigner, as anyone who saw him pick up a child in Red Square and tell him to "shake hands with Grandfather Reagan" would testify. He was running a kind of countercampaign, seeking to present himself as a radical reformer who is revitalizing the Soviet Union and toning down conflict between the superpowers -- but also as a confident leader who would not get pushed around by any Reagan sermonizing...
...unestablishedPalestinian state. While most observers doubt thatthe two sides will be reconciled in the nearfuture, Khalil says she believes "the Palestinianand Israeli peoples are ready for a settlement."She adds, "There's a deep bond between thesepeoples, because they lived for centuries inpeace. It's not a deep-rooted conflict, but apolitical one, caused by the clashing ofnationalisms...