Word: conflict
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With the global conflict of World War II fresh in their minds, post-war Harvard students and Faculty grappled daily with international issues from communism to world federalism, arms technology to European reconstruction, arguing with the same intensity with which today's students debate identity politics or affirmative action...
...what TIME bureau chief Tim McGirk calls "a profound mood of relief that India is no longer alone in being ostracized." Whether such emotions are justified, given the plunging rupee in India and the boarded-up banks in Pakistan, is another question. McGirk also reports a "serious risk" of conflict in the disputed border region of Kashmir -- claims and counterclaims of militant infiltration that "would not go nuclear immediately" but may eventually risk the world's first atomic war. The subcontinent had better celebrate while...
...Israel's celebration of its 50 years of statehood [WORLD, May 11]. The founding of the nation signified a birth to Jews but a burial to the Palestinians. Over time, Zionist terrorism was replaced by Palestinian terrorism, and war and grief were never far away. The perpetual threat of conflict forced increases in Israeli defense budgets and made enormous economic support by the U.S. necessary. Against all odds, foreign and internal, the Israelis have managed to build and uphold the most democratic country in the Middle East. However, Israeli society is more torn than ever before, and the historic chance...
Your special report on the most influential people of the 20th century summed up what lies ahead [TIME 100, April 13]. You noted that tribalism and ethnic conflict pose a great threat to peace. However, I differ with your stance. Tribalism (I would prefer the word patriotism) is the wave of the future. The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in today's new world order. And there are other peaceful examples, such as Czechoslovakia, which separated quietly. In Africa colonial powers did not draw borders to accommodate different tribes, and perhaps that is the reason for the ever reappearing...
...Milosevic is no Lincoln, he has a keen interest in maintaining the integrity of the borders of his country. Indeed he should feel obligated to keep the nation intact. And the U.S. certainly has an interest in ensuring that the Kosovo situation does not explode into a wider Balkan conflict. JOHN DAVID JOHNSON Heidelberg, Germany...