Word: tensions
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Many societal problems also affected AAAAS. In 1969, all leadership positions in the group were held by males. This was a source of tension between the leadership and many of the women in the organization, including Lani C. Guinier '71, the University of Pennsylvania Law School professor and this year's Class Day speaker. According to Robert L. Hall '69, many Radcliffe students felt alienated by AAAAS...
...tension between SDS veterans and newermembers was increasing. The students' protests hadplaced the league's tax-exempt status at risk...
ZAGREB -- The U.N. protection force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia would rather obstruct the media than risk exacerbating tension between the warring factions. Last week it denied journalists access to an area of eastern Croatia that was devastated by Serbs two years ago and is now ostensibly under U.N. control. Said a top unprofor officer: "We have a gentlemen's agreement with the Serbs. We promised not to show things that might embarrass them to journalists." Because they thought it might inflame local passions, unprofor also withheld from reporters a videotape made by U.N. troops showing Bosnian Croat tanks destroying...
...find themselves facing a truncated career, no pension and bleak employment prospects in the civilian world. "Everybody is wondering about what their own careers and their own finances will be, and of course, financial issues are major contributors to family violence," McGinn says. "There's a lot of tension." Outside experts point to other factors. Compared with civilian society, the military population is younger and drawn from lower socioeconomic ranks, and consequently more violence prone. Alcohol abuse is relatively high, pay tends to be poor and the military attracts men who have authoritarian tendencies...
Amid increasing tension and rumors of a possible armed intervention, the U.S. took steps to focus its policy toward Haiti. President Clinton appointed a new special envoy to the country: William Gray, a former Congressman from Pennsylvania. The White House also announced that Haitian boat people would now be permitted hearings at sea to determine whether they should be allowed political asylum. Meanwhile the Haitian military government named Supreme Court Justice Emile Jonassaint, 80, as President, a move the U.S. denounced as "cynical, unconstitutional and illegal...