Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARIS: As one embarassing conflict ended, so another began. Air France pilots reached a strike-breaking deal early Wednesday with just hours left on the clock before the World Cup began -- but any feelings of relief in the French capital were dampened by clashes between drunken fans and overzealous police on the Champs Elysées. During what was supposed to be a celebration of the global tournament, security-minded gendarmes pushed the crowd behind a maze of barriers. Several hundred local supporters started throwing bottles, and riot troops responded with tear gas. With 34 injured and 50 arrested...
...recent decades in TV and other popular media, whereas in earlier decades we found them in, say, literature or painting. This stems from the other convulsion the century had in store for the arts in addition to World War I. (Oddly, it wasn't World War II. That conflict's primary impact came from the waves of European artists who fled Nazism for the U.S., enriching the country's homegrown arts and shifting the center of gravity in such fields as painting and classical music...
...figured it out: Going on strike just ahead of the World Cup may be a good strong-arm tactic to use with the bosses, but it ain't exactly going to win any sympathy contests. With thousands of soccer fans -- not to mention Eritreans attempting to flee the growing conflict with Ethiopia -- stranded, the pilots' popularity is plummeting. A poll in Le Journal du Dimanche showed that just 38 percent of the union-friendly French public support their strike. Compare that to 79 percent for the truckers last fall, and you have the picket-line equivalent of an own goal...
Today, nuclear warfare threatens the Indian subcontinent. Had Harry Truman imagined this circumstance? At the time he made the fateful but valiant decision to nuke Japan, President Truman was controlling what he hoped to be the denouement of a most horrendous global conflict. Though he was initiating the nuclear age, he could not possibly have forecast the dissemination of nuclear know-how to countries which at the time were still under the domain of the late British Empire. Even the Soviets were still in the dark as to the workings of America's newest weapon...
...Mary Robinson became the embodiment of what Ireland represented for millions of them, as against green beer, leprechauns, or armed conflict," says Niall O'Dowd of Irish Voice, a newspaper in New York...