Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ROAD TO MECCA Athol Fugard's almost Ibsenesque musing about the conflict between an independent artist and orderly society...
...degree, the rhetorical outpouring of sympathy for the Palestinians is hypocritical; for nearly four decades, the Arab states have done next to nothing to resolve the Palestinian refugee problem. At the Arab summit in Amman last month, the leaders paid little attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict and virtually ignored the presence of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week Arafat, ever the opportunist, gathered P.L.O. leaders for a meeting at their headquarters in Tunis to discuss the possibility of declaring a Palestinian government-in-exile...
...result of a merger dispute. In April, Texaco filed for bankruptcy protection. Enter Icahn, who three weeks ago became Texaco's largest stockholder by boosting TWA's holdings to 12.3%. Icahn helped forge a deal between Pennzoil and a committee representing Texaco's shareholders to settle the conflict for $3 billion. Texaco's management blasted the plan, but may have to go along if its shareholders approve. Icahn stands to reap rich profits, since Texaco's stock could surge once the firm emerges from bankruptcy...
...Afghanistan. On the eve of this week's summit meeting between the Soviet leader and President Ronald Reagan, the pace of the diplomatic maneuvering quickened. Before leaving Moscow for Washington, Gorbachev told NBC's Tom Brokaw that if the U.S. really wanted to find a "political" solution to the conflict, "it could be done very quickly." For his part, Reagan said in a speech last week that it was time for the Soviet troops in Afghanistan to "pack up, pull out and go home" and that he would push for such a withdrawal at the summit...
Meeting with representatives of both sides of the conflict last week in the Dominican Republic, Obando y Bravo proposed a truce from December 22 to January 6, as a first step toward a wider truce under a Central American peace plan...