Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious problem facing Lance, report TIME Correspondents Rudolph Rauch and Philip Taubman, is his commitment under the Administration's conflict-of-interest guidelines to divest himself of the 190,000 shares he holds in the National Bank of Georgia, of which he was president before going to OMB. He had borrowed heavily to buy 164,228 shares of that stock in June 1975. He had paid $17.74 per share, or $2.9 million, as part of a move with two partners-Pattillo, a construction company president, and John Stembler, a Georgia movie-theater chain owner-to gain majority control...
TIME has learned that the Galante-Dellacroce conflict is ranging from Manhattan to Canada. The first casualties were two Galante spies discovered among Dellacroce's followers. The Little Lamb acted quickly to get rid of the black sheep; their bodies have not been found. Next, Dellacroce sent gunmen to Harlem to shoot a number of heroin dealers?then spread the word that Galante had ordered the hits. Dellacroce's goal was to disrupt Galante's connections with black Narcotics King Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes. Federal agents arrested Barnes on March 16, confiscating $1 million worth of heroin (he was released...
England entered World War I, according to the Chancellor of Germany, "just for a scrap of paper."* In Black and White in Color, a dusty outpost in French West Africa also enters the war for a scrap of paper-a yellowed newspaper from home, which reveals that the conflict has been raging in Europe for six months...
Feldstein said there is a disagreement between the two findings because the studies differed in scope and methodology but that the conflict had been blown out of proportion...
Such hard Israeli attitudes heighten the threat of conflict. But with Israel fully rearmed by the U.S. since the '73 war and the Arabs indifferently resupplied by Moscow, the Arab "confrontation states"-Syria, Jordan and Egypt-are not very well prepared for another war. Thus the real showdown in the Geneva delay is beginning to loom between Israel and the Carter Administration. Washington accepts Israel's insistence on the importance of true peace, but not its aim of retaining vast tracts of captured Arab land. If these differences between Washington and Jerusalem cannot be thrashed out, the road...