Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fingers on both hands wigwagged victory Vs at the clapping, stamping, shouting, pulsing heart of the Republican Party. Four years ago, introducing Barry Goldwater at an identical moment, he had described himself as a "simple soldier" in the Republican ranks. Now the fortunes of political conflict had recommissioned him a five-star general. Richard Nixon was back for one more chance at Commander in Chief...
Dissatisfied Source. With that view of politics, Broder rarely overstates a case or falls into the common journalistic trap of discovering conflict where none, or little, exists. The results were evident in Broder's stories before and during last week's convention. While others made much of the "erosion" of Nixon support to Reagan and Rockefeller, Broder kept insisting that Nixon's delegate strength was still substantially intact. "I can't find any signs of motion that way," he said last week. He ran his own head counts, published firm numerical rundowns of key delegations...
...critics of this kind of pluralistic solution to the conflict in Viet Nam argue that it would be too fragile to be sustained, much less built up into an eventual national compromise. What would happen if U.S. and North Vietnamese units clashed in an area where local accommodations had been reached? How could village or district elections in contested areas be supervised? When would the U.S. know that it was safe or opportune to begin withdrawing troops, and how many to retain in South Viet Nam? It would be splendid, of course, to have clear-cut answers to such questions...
Learning to Limit. The U.S. involvement in South Viet Nam and Russia's handling of Czechoslovakia are, of course, totally different situations. Both conflicts, though, serve to show the limits of big-power action. The U.S. and Russia must move with caution for fear of touching off nuclear conflict, and pay some attention to the opinions of their allies. Both superpowers must come to accept some changes that they do not like. The Russians may eventually learn the limits not only of military intervention, of which they have always been rather chary, but of political subversion as well...
Still, Ojukwu's regime had some reason to take heart, even though the federal vise was tightening: in the midst of the renewed fighting it received an unexpected boost from President Charles de Gaulle. In a communiqué, the French government declared that the conflict should be settled "on the basis of the right of peoples to govern themselves"-the first such commitment favoring Biafra by a European nation. "This strengthens our hand at Addis," exclaimed Biafran Information Minister Ifegwu Eke. "And if the talks break down, our African friends will be prepared to take the issue...