Word: rifted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second chapter of the story came when the Administration, sensing that the closure of both offices might cause a serious rift in US relations with friendly Arab states, tried to make a deal with the pro-Israel lobbyists. Washington Jewish Week has reported that the State Department offered to push for the closing of the PIO in exchange for the lobby dropping its demand for the illegal closing of the UN mission. At first, the PLO was given 30 days to divest itself from the PIO, but was later given an extension to December 1. The Director...
These are the realities of today's El Salvador, trapped like Nicaragua in a war against itself that has left people so terrorized and divided that it may be impossible ever to heal the rift. Ask anyone what the country needs most, and the answer comes quick as a rifle's report: peace. But peace has many last names. President Jose Napoleon Duarte and his U.S. supporters declare that they want peace with democracy. The armed forces vow to accept only peace with national security. And the Marxist-led F.M.L.N. says its goal is peace with freedom from U.S. interference...
Little love has been lost between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the AFL-CIO. The labor federation expelled the Teamsters on charges of corruption in 1957, precipitating raiding wars in which each side sought to increase membership at the other's expense. That rift ended last week, when the AFL-CIO board, representing 13.1 million workers, voted to readmit the 1.8 million-strong Teamsters union. Said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "This is a process of pursuing solidarity and bringing into one house all of labor's children...
Ironically, the latest spurt of Jewish emigration has caused a rift between the U.S. and Israel. Though Jewish emigrants almost always give Israel as their destination, many have actually settled in the U.S. Israel, eager to gain a higher share of Soviet Jews, has asked Moscow to begin routing the departees' flights directly to Tel Aviv rather than to Vienna, the current gateway. Washington opposes any move that would place limitations on the emigrants' freedom of choice...
...quickly established an authoritarian presence and installed his younger brother George as his successor when he became President in 1979. Together the Matanzimas managed to acquire large amounts of state land to add to their already substantial farming interests. More recently, however, the brothers had a falling out. The rift was exacerbated when Kaiser, now semiretired, feared that George, 68, was about to be unseated as a result of corruption charges. Two weeks ago, while George was recuperating from an unspecified illness in Port Elizabeth, Kaiser announced the formation of a new party in opposition to George's ruling National...