Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showdown of Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf just five years ago appears today as a cultural relic of the '90s, another touchstone of popular culture created for our general consumption. It was the closest that our generation has come to large scale international conflict, thank God. We all watched the war on television, but few if any Harvardians partook...
...idyllic last week. And the bodies were piling up. The streets of the Zairean provincial capital were patrolled by Tutsi rebels. Bukavu's Catholic Archbishop was ambushed and murdered. And the town's "very fine airstrip" had become a fulcrum in an undeclared war between Rwanda and Zaire, a conflict that could precipitate the dismemberment of Zaire, a country the size of Western Europe. Caught in the cross fire were more than half a million Hutu refugees who have been huddling in squalid camps along Lake Kivu for the past two years. By week's end, the fighting...
...student charges that the this appellate system is disgraceful, setting up an inherent conflict of interest: The shuffling of cases between the boards, the student says, can ultimately force a student to be judged by a body he attempted to circumvent, the Ad Board...
...recalls a time when a first-year woman had a conflict with her roommates...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "No matter how much we disagree about weapons systems and about strategies and about budget numbers, we all agree on one thing...[E]very time we have a conflict, when we move out to project American power, we carry that power, whether it is marines or soldiers or ammunition or aircraft and all the logistics that you have to take to a foreign place to fight...