Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however. The end of the Falwell era should inspire a sweeping re-examination of the way conservative Christians separate church and state. As it happens, one vision is already being forcefully argued by Charles Colson, the Watergate felon turned prison evangelist, in his articulate new book Kingdoms in Conflict (Morrow/Zondervan; $15.95). Colson's criticisms of the Religious Right are especially noteworthy, coming as they do from a biblically conservative Southern Baptist who joins with the movement in decrying America's continued drift toward dangerous immorality and secularism...
...presidency. Still, she has not abandoned her decade-long crusade against violence in the media, an involvement that her husband has supported. Gore continues her own schedule of lectures and joins her husband on the campaign trail for perhaps three days a week. "I feel a bit of a conflict," she admits. "But so far I'm campaigning and also being true to myself...
...message is not always clear. FORWARD WITH THE FRONT, shouts the party's official 1987 slogan from billboards and walls around Managua. HERE NO ONE SURRENDERS. The government has in fact surrendered some ground since signing the peace agreement, but the real issues at the root of the conflict have not been addressed. Nicaragua is at war with itself, as it has been before in a history as violent as the tropical storms that sweep across the isthmus. It is not just a war in the mountains between guerrillas and soldiers, but a much larger struggle among Nicaraguans over...
Although Ginsburg's indiscretion may have been common among members of the Big Chill generation, his confession fatally undermined his support among the Capitol Hill conservatives who had lobbied so hard for his nomination. The disclosure was the final straw in a week of controversy that included accusations of conflict of interest over his investment in a cable-television company, charges by a congressional committee that he ordered the destruction of documents while he worked at the Justice Department, allegations that he improperly sidetracked rules to limit the use of cancer-causing asbestos, and the revelation that his wife...
Political harmony has proven itself to be a transient international mood. As long as there are reasons for the United States and Soviet Union to conflict--uncontrolled passions in the Middle East and Latin America, the occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet violations of human rights--there will be reasons to rebuild weapons, reasons to deploy weapons, and reasons to use weapons. Arms control is not a solution to these problems...