Word: flashpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radio also said two protesters were wounded in the Jabaliya refugee camp, a flashpoint of the almost daily anti-Israeli demonstrations, where residents attacked an army patrol with stones and sticks embedded with nails...
...think Dean Michael Spence is correct in stating that the University has a clear interest in the number and incidence of controversial speakers appearing here. The reason for this is clear enough: such speakers are a flashpoint for turmoil. This turmoil emanates from the unwillingness of foes of controversial speakers to regulate or dampen the emotionalism associated with their opposition. Thus turmoil-inducing events must be managed through University machinery--University police, administrative proctors, etc--and there are not infinite resources to be allocated to this task...
...barricade stood a crowd of angry youths. Some Sowetans claim that the trouble actually started two hours earlier, when police broke up a meeting called to discuss the threatened eviction of people who were refusing to pay their rent. The government, on the other hand, maintained that the flashpoint occurred at the roadblock, when someone threw a hand grenade at the Land Rovers, wounding four policemen, including three blacks. Both sides agree on what happened next. Police sprayed gunfire into the shrieking crowd, killing eight people and wounding 68 on the spot. Three hours later, security forces attacked a second...
Black workers have approached Black faculty, staff and students throughout the University to rally support for the workers' efforts to get a fairer shake from Harvard. After all, the conflict between seniority and affirmative action is a flashpoint of the struggle for racial justice in the context of fiscal austerity and job cutbacks. If we Third World students were up in arms about job opportunities for relatively privileged legal scholars, then we are righteously even more animated by the stark spectacle of Black workers and their families literally losing their livelihoods...
What purpose do the U.S. Marines serve in Beirut? What purpose could they conceivably serve? There can be no peace in Lebanon without political reconciliation. Perhaps U.S. diplomacy can speed such reconciliation, but the Marines in Beirut are merely a flashpoint for new hostilities. They are clay ducks vulnerable to any of the many anti-U.S. terrorists in Beirut. Did we not learn our lesson in Vietnam? Foreign armies cannot solve domestic political squabbles...