Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-based Program on Negotiation--headed by Williston Professor of Law Roger Fisher is a university consortium designed to advance the theory and practice of conflict resolution. Members of the group have been at the forefront on developing the new negotiating technique, which has been put to its first real test over the past year in nearby Malden, a crowded, working class industrial city of 53,000 generally skeptical of Ivy League planning...
WORLD WAR II, the Middle East Conflict; the Cold War. Watergate, very few people can claim to have even been a first-hand witness to any single one of these events. But Clifton Daniel, former foreign correspondent and managing editor of the New York Times has not only witnessed but played a role in all of them, not to mention several international summit conferences and a multitude of other major events Daniel, though, has no intention of burdening his readers with anything remotely serious...
...mystery. According to some counts, as many as a third of the surface-to-air and cruise missiles in the arsenal of the Soviet navy's northern fleet went up in smoke. But U.S. officials warned against attaching too much strategic importance to the accident. If an actual conflict came, said a senior Administration Kremlin watcher, the Soviets would "fire what they had on hand...
...past six weeks, three of Kuwait's oil tankers have been attacked in the Persian Gulf as Iran, angered by Iraq's attacks on tankers carrying its oil, has taken out its frustrations on Iraq's Arab allies. With the expansion of the conflict, Kuwait sees the good life it has carved out for itself endangered by a war it does not consider its own. Asserts Foreign Minister Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the state's Foreign Minister: "The war is on our doorstep, and we feel the dangers more than others...
During five hours of clashes, the second round in three weeks of industrial conflict at Orgreave, angry pickets showered the police with stones, bricks and bottles; in retaliation, the police charged them on horseback and on foot. By the end of the day, nearly 100 miners had been arrested, and 51 miners and 28 police were reported injured. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was unfazed by the events. Declared she: "The law must and will continue to be upheld...