Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis riding around in a tank to prove he's soft on defense. The reality is that America under President Reagan has had the largest peacetime military buildup in history; we are stuck with stockpiles of excess, overpriced weapons systems and a Department of Defense bloated with consultants and conflict-of-interest connections with industry...
...would argue against peace in the Middle East, but voting for Question 5 does nothing to help reach a solution. Contrary to what its supporters claim, voting for Question 5 would set back efforts to achieve a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...wording of the referendum places all the blame on Israel, yet the conflict has involved violence on two sides. The referendum singles out Israel for human rights violations that are routinely ignored in other beneficiaries of U.S. aid dollars. The referendum paints a picture of Palestinians eager to negotiate a peace settlement; yet Palestinians have not even renounced terrorism to show that they are willing to come to the table...
...referendum would have our elected representatives censure Israel for its actions rather than using American influence to bring both sides of the conflict together in negotiations. Calling for a complete cut-off of American aid to Israel is a blackmail tactic not befitting of reasoned foreign policy. Referenda should be for constructive purposes, not for partisan manipulation. It would be more productive for us to call on Israel to change its methods and start pushing for peace, than to cut off all effective ties with...
Albano accuses Thompson of a conflict of interest in having city employees working on his campaign. Thompson does not deny that some of his campaign workers are city employees, but on the conflict of interest charge, he says, "If she's going to challenge me, at least mine are all laborers...