Word: strife
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...past few weeks, however, the tide of blood has risen. The toll in the south has mounted to at least a dozen lives daily. With the presidential vote set for next week, the country and its 16 million people are on the verge of anarchy, the ethnic and factional strife having unleashed a savagery evocative of El Salvador in the early 1980s. Many Sri Lankans stake the last hope for their island country on a democratic transfer of power that will end the protracted eleven-year rule of President Junius Jayewardene. That faith, a narrow one, rests on the prospect...
These fears are based on misguided loyalty. Does it make sense to insist on an Israel open to all Jews and not to demand that that same nation act within the bounds of Jewish morals? Is it fair to urge peace between Jews and ignore strife between Jews and Palestinians? There is no mid-way between original principles and no principles; loyalty to a higher conception of Israel requires criticism when the country strays from...
...team also had to deal with racial strife. John Tyson, the Crimson's All-Ivy defensive back, decided to sit out the 1968 season as a protest of Harvard's policies toward Blacks...
Troops manned sandbagged bunkers and cruised the streets in armored personnel carriers in the southern cities of Hyderabad and Karachi, where nearly 300 people died in ethnic strife in September. Elsewhere, police patrolled streets to keep order...
After more than a month of political unrest that has brought their country to the brink of civil strife, many Yugoslavs had been counting on last week's meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee to shake up the national leadership and address the nation's economic miseries. What they got was a three-day Belgrade talkathon that accomplished little -- and may in fact have worsened the political crisis. The biggest loser, at least for the moment, was Slobodan Milosevic, the demagogic Serbian party leader and Yugoslavia's most charismatic politician since Josip Broz Tito, who died in 1980. Afraid...