Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outwardly, Deaver maintained his equanimity in the wake of the long expected indictment. In a prepared statement Deaver asserted, "I am confident that I have not committed any perjury." He took comfort in the fact that he was not accused of more substantive conflict-of-interest charges, a development that led Deaver and observers in the Washington legal fraternity to suspect that Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. does not have a particularly strong case against...
...wanting to be considered a traditionalist, nor to be characterized as having bugbears, I decided that I would resolve the conflict myself. Besides, I didn't feel like waiting for William Safire to come out with the last word on it. Herewith, an amateur's guidelines for using hopefully...
Furthermore, he began his speech by declaring that the problem in South Africa is not one of racism, but one of cultural differences. Clearly, this is a denial of the reality of racial conflict between minority whites and majority Blacks in South Africa. He sought to manipulate the questions of racism in South Africa by citing racist policies in the United States of which we, Blacks, are already fully aware and find equally unacceptable! By supporting these statements as "reasonable," the Conservative Club admits its own racism...
...past few months as many as 7,000 men have been trained and sent in small groups -- about 20 rebels each -- from Honduras into Nicaragua. This is a new stage in the conflict: instead of camping out in big, vulnerable bases on the border, they are using small bands to harass the Sandinistas with hit-and-run attacks...
Since a solution to South Africa's grinding racial conflict seems to be beyond grasp, how about 306 solutions? That is exactly the suggestion made in a best-selling book that has raised a new controversy -- and won some surprising backers -- throughout the country. The book, South Africa: The Solution, proposes a Swiss-style confederation that would include a weak central government and 306 local bodies that could choose their own economic and social systems. Black radicals could set up Marxist cantons if they wished, and Afrikaner right-wingers could have their all-white enclaves. Everyone else could choose various...