Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year after Indian troops launched their offensive to disarm the Tigers. Indian soldiers had arrived in Sri Lanka in July 1987 to help implement an Indo-Sri Lankan agreement that gives the minority Tamils a greater measure of autonomy. But militants on opposite sides of the bloody Sri Lankan conflict united in rejecting the agreement...
...latest production binge had its origins in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, which ended with an Aug. 20 cease-fire. During the conflict, Iraq desperately needed oil revenues to fuel its war machine. As a result, the country exceeded its OPEC production quota of 1.54 million bbl. a day. Now that the fighting has ended, Iraq will have enough pumping capacity to increase its production even more, from a current level of 2.7 million bbl. a day to about 3.5 million bbl. a day within the next 18 months. With 100 billion bbl. of reserves, Iraq ranks second only...
...This is the way we teach history," he says. "We emphasize people who kill. I saw a world where there was peace, and now it is gone. The Pakistanis hate the Indians; the Jews hate the Arabs. There is the whole Iran-Iraq conflict. There is no gain...
...George Bush wins the election three weeks from now--as it appears he will--political conflict between a Republican administration and a Democratic Congress could very well force the court to make the decision in the next four years. That decision will likely fall in favor of the President, making presidential authority in foreign affairs virtually limitless...
With six national groups and more than a dozen other ethnic groups in a population of only 24 million, Yugoslavia's nationality problems have been a source of conflict for centuries, but they have been aggravated by economic woes: inflation at 217%, unemployment at 15%, a foreign debt of $21 billion. Though a party plenum this month will try to defuse regional strife and revive the economy, a Slovene television producer fretted, "No one says it out loud, but everyone worries that ((the crisis)) can even lead to civil...