Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terrorism, in the words of Secretary of State Shultz, is "a new kind of warfare." As the tragic events at Mehrabad Airport demonstrated, the outcome of this conflict could ultimately be determined as much by strength of will as by strength of arms. At week's end there appeared to be no logical way to cope with a few angry and fanatic men who had killed-and were vowing to kill again. -By John Kohan...
...White House ceremony in February 1968 to bid him farewell as Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, exhausted and anguished over the Viet Nam War, became so choked up that he could not speak. For the next 16 years McNamara remained speechless about that agonizing conflict, refusing to make any public statements. Last week, summoned to testify in General William Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against CBS, McNamara finally broke his long silence. Even then, as he began to recall the controversies of the time, his raspy voice cracked once again, his lips trembled...
...work, is that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. ought to work together for peace on the Earth. The Kremlin and the White House are portrayed as places of ignorance, unable to see the importance of cooperating for a better world. The specific instance in the film is the brewing conflict in Central America between the two superpowers. The cooperation of the scientists in space opposes this state of affairs. Told to break their vital connection and separate because of the conflict on Earth, the commanders refuse, symbolically showing the value of working together. This action is supposed to stand...
...army without pension. Duarte's move came only a week after the Salvadoran Supreme Court threw out the case against the former lieutenant. Nonetheless, the President charged that the rebel plan would not lessen the toll of war. Said he: "The rebels do not want to humanize the conflict because they say it is their strategy to prolong a war to destroy the country. They do not want a truce...
...whether he will seize that authority and will know how to use it. Which Reagan, and which Reagan advisers, will dominate? The stubbornly hard-line or the flexible President, the "ideologues" or the "pragmatists" among his counselors? The labels are somewhat oversimplified, but they do describe a genuine conflict, and in the first term, the evolution of that conflict was quite evident: from ideology to pragmatism...