Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schools for ignoring violence rather than facing up to this human tendency and teaching children how to deal with it. He has scoffed at the notion that U.S. women have achieved anything like the social and sexual emancipation they deserve. He also holds that the nation's racial dilemma is not unique but merely a "local variation of the universal problem" of discrimination...
...Abrasimov's warning underlined the dilemma into which the Berlin affair has plunged the Osi-politik of the Grand Coalition. When he started the new policy 18 months ago, Brandt sought to establish diplomatic relations with all 'Eastern European countries except East Germany. Under pressure from Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats and from moderates in his own Socialist party, Brandt retained the Federal Republic's old insistence that it, and not Ulbricht's regime, is the legitimate representative of all Germans, including those in East Germany...
...Communist tactics confront the allies with a major dilemma. There are simply not enough troops to prevent small-scale infiltration and rocketing. Allied officers estimate that more or less permanent deployment of forces along the rocket ring would tie down as many as eight divisions or, counting support troops, some 100,000 men. Even then, they concede, the enemy could still get through the capital's defenses with sporadic rocket rounds and small ground incursions...
...Cabinet over last year's successful government bid for special decree powers to deal with France's economic problems. His final break with De Gaulle came when he voted for last month's censure motion. The Movement is the freshest Centrist answer to the Gaullist/Communist dilemma, with a program of dialogue, decentralization and economic planning. Prospects: Pisani expects to win no more than five seats, then build for the future...
...shadows is the Communist Party, strengthened by votes from disgruntled Socialists in the last elections and more than willing to step into the breach. Moro himself regards an alliance with the Communists as unthinkable, but more leftist Christian Democrats see it as a way out of the dilemma. Despite the Communist specter, the Socialists seem determined to hold out on the Christian Democrats, defying all of Nenni's pleas to cooperate. Explained Socialist Luigi Mariotti, Minister of Health in the outgoing Cabinet: "The Christian Democrats must be punished for the disgraceful way they have abused the policies we agreed...