Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel that I should include at least one Hollywood comedy whose perspective is ultimately uncritical, since these are among my favorite types, and this Howard Hawks film about journalism is one of the best of the genre. Starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel, the film sets up an unresolveable conflict and proceeds to resolve it romantically (though at the cost of turning Russell into "one of the boys.") Nevertheless, the film's hysterical pace betrays its sensitivity to real emotional conflicts, as well as Hawk's attachment to the male professional communities of irrational shared value which he sees...
...reasons for bad discharges range from anti-war protests to problems indirectly caused or aggravated by the war, such as racial conflict and drug abuse. Sometimes the reasons are listed vaguely as "apathy" or "disrespect." Men who never should have been drafted in the first place received bad discharges only because they were too much trouble to train. They are the victims of overeager recruiters seeking to fill quotas swollen by the war. The list of warcaused injustices accounting for bad discharges is almost endless...
...code of conduct accompanying the raises would severely curtail outside earned income, such as legal and directors' fees and honorariums for speeches. It would require complete financial disclosure of all income, gifts, debts and personal holdings. Strict conflict-of-interest standards would be applied. Restrictions would be placed on the kinds of jobs that people could take when leaving Government. The report urges abolition of "revolving-door arrangements through which company executives, Government regulators and contract negotiators pass freely, changing hats or uniforms as they go, doing damage to public respect for Government...
...Armed Conflict. If war broke out, Peru's armor and modern planes would probably blitz about 35 miles into the Atacama. But the Chileans, regarded by some military men as the better fighters and tacticians, might be able to regroup and eventually push back the Peruvians. An armed conflict, if it did occur, would not only take a bloody toll of the participants but could also tempt other countries on the continent into similar action. Potentially volatile territorial disputes, for example, simmer between Venezuela and both Guyana and Colombia, and also between Peru and Ecuador...
Bloodshed. Hand-to-hand righting in crowded streets. Helicopter-borne police reinforcements swooping down into black ghettos. There were all the signs of another racial conflict in the black townships of white-ruled South Africa last week?all, that is, except one. This time blacks were fighting blacks, not whites, in an outburst of violence over the Christmas holidays that left at least 26 dead in three ghettoized Cape Town suburbs: Langa, Guguletu and Nyanga...