Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much worse lay ahead. The center of conflict was the six-week-old strike by 18,000 railway workers. Officials of the government-run South African Transport Services suddenly announced that any striker who did not return to work on Wednesday would be fired. When the deadline arrived, only 2,000 workmen showed up at their jobs; the other 16,000 were told that the company had "terminated their contracts...
Perot's interest in the MIA situation has brought him into yet another conflict with the Administration. Last week he revealed that he had secretly flown to Hanoi in March, at the invitation of the Vietnamese government, to discuss the MIA issue. He presented the Vietnamese with a proposal from Reagan to appoint retired Army General John Vessey as a presidential envoy to negotiate about missing Americans. The Vietnamese were receptive. But the State Department, Perot says, then jumped the timetable agreed upon for announcing Vessey's pending appointment. The Administration, he charged, was "taking a piece of fine china...
...pool and manhood, and despite the cute directorial tricks of Martin Scorsese, nothing really happens. Felsen's last-minute change of heart is unconvincing, as is Vince's all-too-quick corruption. We never get to see Newman and Cruise square off in a genuine contest and so the conflict between love and money falls entirely by the wayside. It seems as if Scorsese was so afraid of a sappy moral ending that he never bothered to finish the film...
...intricate diplomatic skein. Last month Cerezo met with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra in Nicaragua. The Sandinista leader reiterated his refusal to negotiate with the U.S.-backed contras, but the two agreed to keep talking. Cerezo's critics believe his attempt to be an honest broker in the Nicaraguan conflict has jeopardized Guatemala's ties to the U.S. This year American military aid was slashed to $2.4 million, less than half the 1986 level. While Guatemalans suspect that the reduction is Washington's way of showing its displeasure, U.S. officials deny that. Congressional sources say the decrease was merely the result...
...tensions between the U.S. and Japan. This week the Reagan Administration is scheduled to slap 100% tariffs on $300 million worth of Japanese goods in retaliation for Japan's failure to live up to a semiconductor trade agreement. At the Washington G-7 session, Japan tried to ease the conflict by unveiling a $34 billion program to stimulate its economy through public works. The spending is intended in part to boost Japanese imports of foreign goods. Although similar programs had done nothing in the past to reduce the country's trade surplus, U.S. officials were hopeful that Tokyo was serious...