Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic manner in which it has been raised in recent months, has hit the American Jewish community hard and has made it clear that we are wandering in a moral desert. Confronted with reports of atrocities on the West Bank, American Jews find their liberal sympathies in conflict with their Jewish identity...
...support Israel, the sole democracy in the region and a country with a human right record far superior to that of any member of the Arab League. While its members claim to do otherwise, the Society of Arab Students systematically attempts to block rational consideration of the current conflict. Glen I.A. Schwaber...
Twentieth century bureaucracy stumbles when it comes to the Amish, who have stubbornly resisted the Social Security program and other government rules and regulations. The latest conflict has cropped up in Mesopotamia (pop. 2,000), Ohio, 40 miles east of Cleveland, where Amish Volunteer Fire Fighters Eli Miller and Noah Mullet go unshaven as a sign of personal simplicity. A new state law forbids fire fighters to wear beards in the line of duty. The reason: facial hair prevents a proper seal from forming between the skin and a breathing mask, which fire fighters are required to use near flames...
...minority government has forbidden since last June virtually all press coverage of black unrest. The policy seems to have worked: in the weeks after the ban was imposed, first the disorders disappeared from the world's headlines, then the unrest itself began to subside. Other nations have shielded their conflicts from public scrutiny in a similar fashion. The bloody ground war between Iran and Iraq goes unmentioned in the world's press for months at a time because reporters have no access to the front lines. In the first years after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, almost nothing was known about...
...center of the conflict is the part of a computer that is most visible to the user: the words and pictures that appear on the screen and the commands by which the machine can be made to do one's bidding. Conventional computers, including the industry-standard IBM PC, are controlled by entering commands letter by letter on the computer's typewriter-like keyboard. The Mac, by contrast, uses artful screen displays to create the visual illusion of a desktop littered with objects and documents that can be selected and manipulated with a "mouse," a handheld pointing device...