Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to thwart the establishment of peace-a ruse to help her gain time so as to impose a fait accompli, in the short term by having Israeli settlements established on the occupied Arab land (which she does at present) and in the long term by resolving the current conflict between American and Israeli interests when, in the fullness of time, the energy crisis is itself resolved...
...White House's ability to settle the strike was strictly limited. Both sides have proved to be stubborn, fractious and suspicious. In the scarred and desolate hills of Appalachia, owners and miners both take for granted a degree of conflict that does not exist in other U.S. industries. From the start, the 130 companies that belong to the Bituminous Coal Operators Association showed a determination to bludgeon the union into a contract that had little chance of ratification by the rank and file. In exchange for a 37% pay increase over a three-year period, the owners insisted...
Sensing a doublecross, Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas angrily accused Bergland of being in "open conflict with what the Congress has directed him to do." Finally, in early November the Administration imposed the tariff and established the support program. For no apparent reason, however, the regulations omitted refined sugar from the tariffs and were otherwise ineffective in curtailing the import of raw sugar before the Jan. 1 deadline. While the Administration delayed closing the loopholes for ten weeks, foreign sugar flooded the U.S. In December alone, nearly 2 million tons of sugar was imported, about six times the normal...
...third mistake, continues Rabin, was in the process of the negotiations. "Every Israeli Premier since Ben-Gurion used to say that once an Arab leader would meet openly with the Premier of Israel, the conflict could be solved within minutes. Well, President Sadat came, sat, talked, and yet the miracle that was called direct negotiations did not work. But more than that, Begin decided to go to Washington to get President Carter's blessing for his peace plan even before he showed it to the Egyptians; this displayed Begin's obvious lack of confidence in direct negotiations...
...India's population (now over 620 million) will reach 1 billion by the year 2000. During Desai's first nine months in office, on the other hand, there were only 636,000 sterilizations, the lowest rate in a decade. The threat of dictatorship has receded, but the conflict between traditional democracy and the things India must do to save itself remains unresolved...