Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Collision Course. One of the few favorable signs at the conference was that the Southern polemics were somewhat more restrained than usual. Said Venezuela's Minister of State, Manuel Perez Guerreo: "You can't get a new international economic order in 18 months." How serious the conflict between the two groups really was may become clearer in July when OPEC leaders, still divided among themselves, meet in Stockholm for a review of oil prices that could once again put North and South on a collision course...
...script lays out with admirable clarity and for something like half the film's running time. When events begin to overwhelm dramatic logic, Director Attenborough loses his design in the smoke and din of a huge, confused battle. Then, too, there is an attempt to humanize the conflict by recounting sundry vignettes of what life was like for troops serving below staff level. By the time James Caan has got his wounded captain to hospital and Elliott Gould has thrown a temporary bridge across a stream in record time and Robert Redford has led an amphibious assault, the flow...
...came as no surprise to anyone on the Chilean left: "It's raining in Santiago" was the agreed-upon signal that came over the radio informing U.P. supporters that the army was on its way. For months, the right had been creating an atmosphere of conflict; one coup had already been aborted. U.P. militants had already occupied factories and buildings in preparation for a coup, and in the Moneda Palace, Allende and the rest of the U.P. leadership viewed it as a final test...
...Lance asks Carter for a waiver, it would pose a problem for the President. It is Lance's contention that as long as all his debts and assets are fully disclosed, there is no possible conflict of interest at issue...
...region unity. Reversing the 19th century preoccupation with northern Europe, Braudel turns the globe upside down. Africa immediately looms large, overshadowing tiny Europe. The central struggle and axis in the Mediterranean is not north and south but east and west-the Spanish and Ottoman empires caught in endless "cultural conflict." At the end, there is an affirmation of the Annalistes' guiding philosophy: not history tending toward abstraction but "toward the very sources of life in its most concrete, everyday, indestructible and anonymously human expression...