Word: strife
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...lead to even deeper troop cuts on both sides. Soviet forces are not capable of launching a surprise invasion of Western Europe now that their allies in the Warsaw Pact have declared independence and the U.S.S.R.'s military effectiveness has disintegrated. The Soviet army is significantly weakened by ethnic strife and insubordination in the ranks. (At the NATO meeting in Brussels last week, a senior defense expert disclosed that the Soviet army mobilized an entire division in its Moscow barracks last February as a signal to the Kremlin against further military cuts.) Warning time in advance of a hypothetical Soviet...
...help build a stable peace. -- With an impoverished North and a reviving South, Vietnam is still divided. -- In strife-torn Cambodia, the killing has never ceased...
...course, Clark has never been known for diplomacy in the midst of political strife. When the school's faculty was divided over tenure denials to several radical scholars in recent years, Clark the professor was one of the most vocal idealogues of the right...
Such slogans have not helped. An enormous fire of national strife burns in the U.S.S.R...
...writer Stanislav Zolottsev has suggested that it is a provocation aimed at persuading American officials to allow more Soviet Jews to enter the U.S. as political refugees. However, the Moscow prosecutor has begun investigations to determine if Pamyat supporters should be charged with "inciting national and racial hatred and strife." If the inquiry results in a trial, it will be the first time the law has been invoked since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power...