Word: conundrum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British response has been to tighten security and try again for a political solution to the Ulster conundrum. Margaret Thatcher's Tory government has installed a trio of new commanders in Northern Ireland, headed by Britain's famed spy master, Sir Maurice Oldfield, as supreme "security coordinator" for the area. There is a new level of cooperation between Dublin and London on security measures, notably in a secret agreement that allows helicopters of each side to overfly borders for up to ten miles in pursuit of terrorists...
...warmth inspired by the Pope's presence poses a conundrum about the man and his views. Although Mexico is largely anticlerical and Poland is Communist, the vast majority of their citizens are Catholics who have been reared from infancy to respect the papacy. But the U.S. is a pluralist, secular, sexually permissive society, and in the past two decades Americans have come to view with suspicion all institutions and authority, social, political or religious...
...Neff, as to most Middle Eastern observers, "Menachem Begin's victory was more than an upset. It was a conundrum. What did it mean-for peace, for America, for Israel, for the Palestinians?" Our cover story this week, written by Associate Editor Spencer Davidson, assesses those questions. Along with it is the interview that Neff and Halevy had with Menachem Begin after his party's victory. Neff thought the security man guarding Begin's apartment looked familiar, and, says Neff, "he was. It was the same guard we had encountered a few days before at the office...
...realm gathered last week in a paneled committee room of the House of Lords. Ranged around a horseshoe table, the lords listened intently as, one by one, bewigged barristers rose to argue the fine points of one of the oddest cases in British legal history-the sort of legal conundrum that could exist only in a country that still has titles and a nobility. The two opposing claimants in the case sat stone-faced in the chamber, refusing to meet each other: Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 54, a prosperous London theater producer, and John Hugo Trenchard Russell, 25, an accountant...
...United States v. Richard Nixon -the very title of the unprecedented case now before the Supreme Court suggests a legal conundrum, a theoretical exercise for law professors. The U.S. as party to a lawsuit has always been represented by a lawyer subordinate to the President. So how can the President's own man be suing Richard Nixon? That critical question is a vital element of Nixon's defense...