Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cassidy, who has indicated her desire to become a nun and had been sympathetic to Chile's Liberal clerics, got involved in the developing church-state conflict almost by accident. Two priests - one an American-born Chilean, Father Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds...
...work together to construct in the Congress a bipartisan foreign policy." He continued: "The role and the responsibility of the U.S. [is] to meet our obligations not only to ourselves and our security but, on a broader basis, to get some answers to the problems of the world conflict...
...Havana, Western sources say, there is "demoralization and discontent" among high-level military and civilian officials over the Castro regime's commitment of regular army troops to fight in a foreign conflict. Indeed, a Western official reports that Cuba sent the troops to Angola only "with the greatest reluctance and as a result of Soviet arm twisting." The Soviets feared that the M.P.L.A. would be unable to use the sophisticated weaponry that Moscow was supplying. Since the Russians were unwilling to send in troops themselves, they pressured the Cubans into doing so. But the Cubans have suffered considerable casualties...
...executors were found guilty of conflict of interest: Reis because he had been a salaried accountant at Marlborough, Stamos because Marlborough was the dealer for his own paintings. Surrogate Midonick removed the three executors from the estate, voided all contracts between them and Marlborough, and assessed $9,252,000 in fines and damages against them, Marlborough Galleries and Frank Lloyd, 64, Marlborough's owner. The total included a fine of $3.3 million against Lloyd and Marlborough for contempt of court in selling a group of Rothkos in defiance of a court order. Arthur Richenthal, trial attorney for Reis...
...Government trustbusters are almost certain to study the merger plan carefully to see if it might give GE an unfair advantage over other domestic manufacturers of power plant equipment. If the Justice Department or the Federal Trade Commission decides to challenge the merger, it would underscore a long-building conflict between the nation's antitrust policy and its international economic interests. Reason: a thoroughly integrated energy giant may well be exactly what the U.S. needs to battle effectively for overseas orders against Japanese and other government-supported competitors...