Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration has condemned the aggression and urged Moscow and Peking to avoid any confrontation over Indochina. Intensified quarreling between the two Communist giants could create an extraordinary dilemma for Washington if it were pressed to choose sides. Given Jimmy Carter's bold new China policy, the Chinese might hope that he would back them against the Soviets. As it is, in an increasing number of global pressure points, the U.S. finds itself in a direct or implied confrontation with the U.S.S.R...
...fairness, the dilemma created by Iran is one that would have tested any American President. The Carter Administration inherited a relationship with the Shah that could hardly have been more cozy. In 1972 Richard Nixon decided to lift all restrictions on arms sales to the Shah. Soon billions of dollars' worth of the most sophisticated weaponry and aircraft in the U.S. arsenal began pouring into Iran. America's decision to depend on the Shah as its surrogate policeman in the Persian Gulf was perceived as even more crucial in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, when...
...ganja to earn his dreadlocks. But reggae is an indigenous form. Richards grew up in Kent, not Kingston, and his reggae, though technically admirable, is obviously affected. Add to this the suspicion that Richards, who tends to self-pity, is trying to identify his fiasco in Canada with the dilemma of Cliff and other reggae artists...
...Engelhard affair causes us to confront the dilemma shared by all private universities and non-profit institutions which depend on funds from outside sources for survival: the acceptance of gifts from particular private and corporate sources may unduly compromise the university's role in the wider community and its autonomy in making moral and educational decisions. This dilemma is especially acute for a School of Government where decisions to honor donors by agreeing to conditions of gifts, such as names, might conflict with the ideals such a School seeks to teach...
That controversy goes to the heart of the Egyptian-Israeli dilemma. Three other key issues remain unsettled: Egypt's proposal for a review of security arrangements between the two countries after five years, the timing of the exchange of ambassadors and whether the treaty would supersede Cairo's other commitments to the extent that it would prevent Egypt from going to the aid of another Arab country attacked by Israel. Presumably these issues can be resolved in time...