Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Influence is the Washington grail. In a sense, influence peddling is what democracy is all about. The voter who complains to his Congressman about air pollution is peddling his influence, though far less openly than an industry promoting a tax break. The conflict between group interests, which defines U.S. politics, has also produced an army of expert lobbyists, many of whom actually improve lawmaking by carefully analyzing bills that help or hurt their clients. On some issues, lobbyists cancel one another out, and the merits decide the case. Unfortunately, the game lacks adequate rules...
...ultimate conflict between Arabs and Israelis, however, is not so much a matter of land or race or religion as it is one of culture. The Arabs are light-years behind the European Israelis in education and modern managerial and technical skills. The struggle is between a highly developed nation and a woefully underdeveloped nation. Nasser led his revolt in 1952 not only to free Egypt from 4,000 years of misrule and foreign domination, but to bring it into the modern world by the simplistic techniques of socialism. Distrusted by the Israelis, the loser in two wars...
Whether the faculty likes it or not--and most of them do not--the grade reform controversy is only the first skirmish in what promises to be an escalating conflict. Debate over educational issues will be followed soon by confrontation over political issues. Already students have picketed a construction firm adding a wing to the school because the firm discriminated against blacks. The faculty may soon be criticized for not openly opposing the war, inequalities in American society, and political repression...
...Charles Helou with the task of finding someone to form a government of "national unity" to end the unrest. But the only way to accomplish that would be for the new government to endorse freedom of action for the fedayeen, at least in principle, drawing Lebanon inexorably into the conflict with Israel...
...Conflict is seeping downward in the educational system. In Norfolk, Va., 300 students of the predominantly Negro Booker T. Washington High School walked out in protest over the dismissal of a football coach and next fall's football schedule, which does not include any conference games against white schools. New Rochelle High School, near New York City, was forced to close after a disruption over the stationing of a policeman at the school because of previous trouble. Vandalism, violence and vituperative dissent on a broad variety of issues shut down four New York City high schools last week...