Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troops over ten months, a time span tantalizingly close to the eight months demanded by the West. Addressing a key U.S. concern, he said that a "relatively greater portion" of the forces could leave at the beginning of the period. If those gestures satisfied the other parties to the conflict, he said, Soviet tanks might start clanking homeward as soon as May 15 -- close to the date, not coincidentally, when Reagan is expected to arrive in Moscow for the next superpower summit...
...absence of historical references, an active plot and sharp conflict, the novel is vulnerable to interpretation. Is Bartfuss a wandering Jew in, of all places, Zion? Is his folkloric deathlessness the author's way of saying that, even with their own nation, Jews are eternally restless and unsettled? Or is Bartfuss just suffering from post-Holocaust syndrome: a feeling of withdrawal and loneliness, and an inclination toward "morbid precision, excess awareness, complicated pain...
...superpowers won't allow the U.N. to keep its "eyes and ears in areas of conflict," he said. The U.S. and the Soviet Union "want to make the Secretary-General depend on them...
Moreover, the University statement which refutes the existence of a quota raises a much broader issue than that of racial discrimination. Preference to legacies and to athletes lie within the University's legal rights as a corporation, but conflict with the University's responsiblities as a world leader in education. The selfishness of persons who, like David Yu, defend the "legacy" policy (February 12) is appalling. "As a future alumnus," he defends the policy, but did he support it as an applicant four years ago? University favoritism to "legacies" perpetuates, even validates, an attitude like Yu's: one does...
Vranitzky said he would consider resigning if the conflict over Waldheim continued to occupy time the government should devote to other matters. The Socialist chancellor leads a coalition with the conservative People's Party, which supported Waldheim's election campaign...