Word: strife
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...marked contrast to the intense political strife in his homeland of Haiti, exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide spoke calmly and quietly in a talk before 70 students and faculty in Lehman Hall yesterday...
...INTERNATIONAL awareness prompted by last November's massacre has not brought an end to the strife in East Timor. Clashes between groups at odds over Indonesia's presence persist. As of February 26 this year, Indonesia instituted a ban on any foreign journalists entering East Timor...
...toll taken by internal warfare is reflected in the fading power of New York's Lucchese, Bonanno and Colombo families. The Genovese family, the Gambinos' rival for power, has not been as hard hit by internal strife. The Genoveses, with only 300 soldiers, may find this an ideal time to muscle the Gambinos out of some of their business...
...more benign view of the onetime Georgian Communist Party boss and last week appointed him to chair the new State Council, effectively giving Shevardnadze stewardship of his mountainous homeland. The veteran diplomat now faces pressing tasks: staving off economic collapse, healing the divisions created by months of civil strife and ending the isolation into which Georgia was pushed during Gamsakhurdia's flirtation with dictatorship...
Political strife between critical legal studies scholars and conservative faculty members has paralyzed the appointments process, according to Clark...