Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is more than just naiveté involved in West Germany's dilemma about its policy toward the Soviet Union. The country is at a watershed. Says Christoph Bertram, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "The Federal Republic is simply much more affected than most other European countries by the state of East-West relations. As it has profited from détente between East and West more than most other Western countries, so it will suffer from a decline or breakdown of détente more than most others...
Thus, in Begin's view, Israel faced "a terrible dilemma: Should we now be passive and then lose the last opportunity without those horrible casualties to destroy the hotbed of death, or should we act now?" His voice dramatically pitched, Begin answered his own question. "Then this country and this people would have been lost, after the Holocaust. Another Holocaust would have happened in the history of the Jewish people. Never again, never again. Tell your friends, tell anybody you meet, we shall defend our people with all the means at our disposal." The bombing raid, drummed Begin...
...faced a terrible dilemma: Should we now be passive, and then lose the last opportunity without those horrible casualties amongst the Baghdad population, to destroy the hotbed of death, and then not be able to make it unoperational any more or forever -or should we act now, for reasons I do not have to explain...
...display a post-modernist sensibility; but what else is going on? Not, it appears, very much, and to call these paintings "visionary," as Cowart does, is to overrate them. Rather, they are grounded on a somewhat smug familiarity with the power of cliche. That, of course, is one dilemma of art education...
...fiercely proud, tribally insular Afrikaner elite faces an increasingly irreconcilable dilemma: how to avoid massive civil unrest and bloodshed without relinquishing at least some power to the overwhelmingly nonwhite majority. The 2½-year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 65, has tried to make a beginning by limiting discriminatory practices like segregation at public facilities, lifting bans against mixed sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum...