Word: strife
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...American press has been negligent and biased in its sporadic coverage of civil strife in Northern Ireland, panelists at an Institute of Politics forum at the Kennedy School said last night...
...flight of Apollo 8 accomplished ten revolutions around the moon, and ended with an uneventful splashdown in the Pacific. It was a marvelous Christmas gift to the human race -- and especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire globe floating in the void. It was the centerpiece of a new era, a new consciousness: the Space Age. In the cramped confines of an 11-ft.-long module, blasted aloft by a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket, the three astronauts embodied an American urge for restless exploration, wedded...
...Cruel is the strife of brothers," wrote Aristotle. The observation, it seems, applies even in the normally bland and polite world of Japanese business, specifically in the case of the Tsutsumi brothers, whose quiet rivalry has led not only to strife but also to success and enormous wealth. If that is not enough to inspire a crackling TV mini-series, add the fact that at least one of their fortunes rests on the graves of shoguns...
...fateful phone call came from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev two years ago informing Andrei Sakharov that he could return to Moscow, the Nobel laureate and human-rights activist has assumed an increasingly public role in Soviet life. Two weeks ago, Sakharov, 67, led a fact-finding mission to the strife-torn republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan -- reportedly with Gorbachev's personal blessing...
...Ryzhkov in news reports. Gorbachev may have good reasons for turning the reconciliation work in Armenia over to others. His prestige there . has plummeted since Moscow refused to recognize Armenian claims to Nagorno- Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave in neighboring Azerbaijan that has been the focus of ethnic strife for the past ten months...