Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed in 1973 to United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 [which asks that negotiations begin in order to establish a "just and durable" peace in the region] and to arrangements adopted by the U.N. that called for an International Peace Conference. However, we found that all this was in conflict with Israel's ambitions...
Many years of grinding conflict, however, seem to have left all the combatants ready to think about peace. After serving for so long as a base for the sabotage attacks on South African targets by the militant African National Congress, Mozambique increasingly feared retaliation by South Africa; on top of that, the country had been weakened by a severe drought. Marxist Angola, under siege by UNITA, saw the wisdom of compromise following consistently heavy losses during South African raids. But South Africa, too, has been drained by constant war. Namibia alone costs South Africa $1 billion annually, some...
...while the possible outcomes offer two sharp alternatives, the choice of leaders before the Salvadorans is by no means clear. After four years of internecine conflict and 50,000 deaths, the people of El Salvador desperately desire order and a halt to the bloodletting. Voters may be tempted then to choose the toughest-talking candidate, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the reactionary leader of the National Republican Alliance and a man linked at least indirectly to the right wing death squads...
SOMETIMES it's easy to forget that the bloodiest and most ominous Mideast war is recent history has been raging for over two years. Israel hasn't been directly involved in the Iran/Iraq conflict. No U.S. forces have been directly committed, unlike in Lebanon. And yet the ferocity and scale of this war have been great, and if Iran wins the worldwide repercussions will be severe. Iran has fielded a half-million man army. Casualty estimates run into the tens of thousands. Iraq now seems to be using deadly mustard gas on a large scale. And a victory...
...effect, though, the company's position will still be strong. The inevitable new management labor conflict has now been taken out of the bankruptcy courts and into the civil courts, where the superior resources of the firms may be more effectively brought to bear. Filing for bankruptcy now becomes even more of a gamble, and the new opportunity to threaten labor-contract rejection is a fresh chip for management whenever it deals with the unions...