A role for the Army in third world conflicts is complicated.

But he said each of the third world conflicts also had distinctive elements.

For European leaders, the political problem of reassuring the environmentalists and third world conflicts with economic pressures.

"Moscow seems to want to develop an effective system for coping with dangerous third world conflicts.

The two superpowers still have very different viewpoints on those third world conflicts, and on other matters.

That's a reminder that will significantly strengthen our hand in future Soviet-American efforts to resolve other third world conflicts.

For Moscow, agreements in certain areas, such as arms control, did not preclude competition in others, especially Third World conflicts.

The situation there, as in many other areas of third world conflict, did not occur overnight and will not be put right in a quick military action.

"Instead, third world conflicts are portrayed more as a vast drain on the pitiful resources of developing countries and a catalyst to local and international tensions."

Critics argued that the Reagan Doctrine led to so-called blowback and an unnecessary intensification of Third World conflict.

He added that the outcome of the gulf operations may dispel national reluctance to interpose American military forces in third world conflicts when important issues are at stake.

"What he was saying was, 'Yes, we need that,' " said General Gray, referring to Army units poised for third world conflicts.

It is also notorious for being used as an improvised fighting vehicle - a "technical" - by militias and irregular military forces, especially in Third World conflicts.

But these diplomats also think Moscow may want a stronger United Nations to help extricate it from numerous third world conflicts with a minimum loss of face.

"Afghanistan could turn into one of those chronic third world conflicts like we're faced with in the Sudan or Ethiopia, and our tendency would be to close the book."

President Clinton and Mr. Aspin have strongly supported the C-17 as an important means of ferrying troops and cargo in third world conflicts.

Liberals were wary of seeing the Soviet hand in every third world conflict, or of using military force and supporting repressive anti-Communists in the name of democracy.

The range of compromise and cooperation in trade, human rights, cultural and scientific exchange, third world conflicts and other areas is defined by the negotiations to contain the nuclear arms race.

To be sure, in the developing world military power still counts for a great deal and no nation can bring more of that to bear in third world conflicts than the United States.

A Reconciliation Process as a Component of Conflict Resolution in Zimbabwe in Issues Third World Conflict Resolution.

Sukarno made the take over of western New Guinea a focus of his continuing struggle against Dutch imperialism and part of a broader Third World conflict with the West.

The new leader reduced Soviet involvement in Third World conflicts, and even withdrew the Red Army from Afghanistan in early 1989, leaving the Communist regime there to fend for itself.

Nonetheless Kennedy believed that if both superpowers could convince their respective allies to move toward neutrality in Laos, that country might provide a pattern for settlement of future Third World conflicts.

And within the military industry itself, companies are seeking safer havens like the military electronics business and equipment expected to be used in third world conflicts, like the United States invasion of Panama.

Robert Fowler, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, headed the commission that compiled the report, which raised widespread international concern by highlighting the strong link between the illicit diamond trade and third world conflicts.