Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offend the Canadians and Mexicans. The point is that Americans are living in safety. Except for nuclear weapons, an enemy cannot reach the U.S. Our political and geographical situation is completely different. We are located between Europe and Asia and are encircled by American bases. No matter what conflict might arise in the world, the U.S. can quite easily deploy its armed forces without rushing. No such thing for us. If the situation became serious, we would be forced to change to wartime organization quickly. That is why we need to have very well-trained reserves and armed forces organized...
...everywhere. Tanks rust along the roads, and shell holes pockmark buildings. In the villages north of Kampala, the capital, big plastic bags bulge with bright white human skulls, femurs and tibias, the grisly remains of some of the estimated 1 million victims of two decades of government atrocity, tribal conflict and civil war. Now the nearly four-year-old regime of President Yoweri Museveni is talking about preserving these bones, perhaps in a museum, as a memorial to a time that everyone in Uganda hopes is over...
Eighteen years after a citywide battle created it, the Cambridge rent control board remains steeped in conflict after four months without a full complement of tenant representatives...
Senior U.S. officials admit that the curb on assassinations did not rule out American assistance to the plotters in Panama. Ironically, one reason the coup failed is that the goal was only to force Noriega into retirement, not to kill him. Still, there is a potential conflict with the ban if the U.S. supports a coup in which the death of foreign leaders, though not intended, is likely. CIA director Webster last week proposed an effort to define the policy more clearly so that CIA officers "can go right up to the edge of that authority and not worry...
...think so, because of the interaction of various forces internationally and at home, including the conflict among Afrikaners themselves...