Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...died defending the Confederacy? Although the Harvard Corporation last year rejected a plan to add the names of the Confederate dead alumni to the inscriptions in Memorial Hall, some faculty members are still calling for the names to be inscribed. Many are confident that the wounds of the conflict have long been healed and must be put in perspective; this is the third request to add the Confederate names since Mem Hall was completed more than 100 years...
Tuesday, 12--Armed conflict erupts in the streets of Pretoria...
...refuse to provide evidence until arrests are made, while law-enforcement officials say they cannot arrest anyone without evidence. Meanwhile, a swirl of questions revolves around the Dec. 2 suicide of a part-time policeman; the withdrawal from the case by the local district attorney, who cited an unspecified conflict of interest; and a history of violence in the Brawley family...
Even as harmony flowed out of Mamelodi, it was overshadowed by conflict. The executions of five black men and a black woman were stayed for at least one month by the Supreme Court only 15 hours before the hangings were to take place. The court said there was new evidence of possible perjury by a key state witness in the case of the so-called Sharpeville Six. The six were convicted in connection with the 1984 killing of a councilman in the black township of Sharpeville, even though they were not found to have had a direct role...
...Democrats, and a few Republicans as well, are pushing for provisions in the trade bill that would force the Administration to retaliate automatically against unfair foreign traders. The President, though, has vowed to veto any bill that would take away his discretion on when to impose trade sanctions. The conflict has left the Democrats with a dilemma. Explains Rostenkowski: "We need a bill so tough that our trading partners can't ignore it, but so fair that the President wants to sign...