Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflict erupted when one of the city's bright yellow tow trucks stopped at the corner of Beulah and 123rd Street, at the edge of the Glenville ghetto, to haul away a junked 1958 Cadillac. Guns opened up from every side. One of the truckers called for help on his two-way radio...
...opens on Monday. The Rockefeller camp believes Rhodes will hold out for a couple of ballots. Romney, once Rockefeller's ally, said none of the three prospects appealed to him. As for his convention role, the Michigander said that he expected "to be in the midst of the conflict with words that are true and action that is right, even if not understood at the time...
...deep-freeze and detente can be frustrating, says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, since it offers none of "the clarities of either unambiguous war or unalloyed peace." But, troubling as the ambiguities of Honolulu and Prague may be, they are obviously preferable to the cataclysmic clarity that a conflict between the superpowers would afford...
Actually, the Korean War-or "conflict," because no one ever officially declared war-has never legally ended. The armistice that the combatants signed 15 years ago led to one of the longest truces in the modern history of warfare. Since its signing, the Military Armistice Commission, composed of U.N. observers and U.S. and North Korean officials, has met 273 times at Panmunjom, right in the middle of the Demilitarized Zone set up by the truce. The meetings have always been bitter and hostile, but lately they have taken on an even harsher tone as the result of North Korea...
...reasons. Chief Judge Robert E. Quinn was satisfied that the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, passed by Congress in August 1964, was equivalent to a declaration of war. "The language," he said, "clearly indicates that Congress recognized and declared that the Gulf of Tonkin attack precipitated a state of armed conflict." Judge Paul J. Kilday did not think the Tonkin resolution constituted a declaration of war, but he did think that "abundant authority exists to make clear that a condition of war between states may exist without a formal declaration." For precedents, he began back in 1800 when Supreme Court Justice...