Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some land, since "land's the only thing God ain't making more of." But Berneice wants to cling to her family heritage and never to forget the struggles that came along with the piano. As brother and sister struggle over the piano, Wilson brings out the conflict between wanting to remember old grudges and assimilating with whites, who are "hard to figure out sometimes...
...hope that Bush recognizes the validity of concerns about his knowledge of the fiasco and soon discloses his involvement. It is not a hopeful sign, however, that so far his only concrete response to his chief rival for the Republican nomination has been to suggest--apparently without merit--a conflict of interest associated with the handling of Elizabeth Dole's blind trust and to call for the Kansas senator to release income taxes for the past 10 years. Perhaps Dole is no longer the poor Dust Bowl boy he once was, but we'd like to know whether the vice...
Both sides claimed victory in the battle, which immediately became a symbol of the stalemated wider war. In a rare Moscow briefing on the Afghan conflict, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said last Tuesday that government forces broke the siege and killed or wounded 1,500 rebels. Insurgent leaders in Pakistan called the statement a "bluff" and a "blatant...
...comforted the leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which met last week in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh to coordinate defense strategies. The six -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates -- fear that they will be drawn ever more deeply into the conflict. Iran has already launched Chinese Silkworm missiles against Kuwait. At the summit's opening, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd said the Iranians were "pointing their arrows to our chests instead of helping us to liberate Jerusalem from Zionist domination. There is no reasonable justification for this other than the desire...
...Syrian initiative, launched last month at the urging of Saudi Arabia, was aimed at opening up a dialogue between Tehran and the Arab nations of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council to find ways to end the conflict...