Word: strife
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...efforts were made more difficult by the crescendo of unrest at home. The black National Union of Mineworkers was threatening to call a strike at several gold mines this week, which would deal a further blow to the country's troubled economy and create yet another area of potential strife...
...group of law students organized the event, which drew participants from nearby schools and neighborhoods. Third year law student Susan Keller '83, a coordinator of the Law School Anti-Apartheid Committee, said the rally was called to protest the state of emergency recently declared in the strife-torn land...
Eric Kilburn (guitar, drum, amp) -- Kilburn is director of the Nameless Coffee House on Church St. and plays folk and rock songs. They're not all happy songs because "there is war, poverty, and strife, and if you try to ignore them, you can live a happy, superficial life." He is often hired to play in Charles Square, though he is now in Nicaragua-for several weeks. "I feel I make people happy every time I play," he says...
...Kahn speaks dramatically of violent conflict in the Middle East between Christians and Moslems "since the beginning of history." Historical facts about the rise of Islam and its relationship with the various other religions of the Middle East aside, it is naive and erroneous to characterize the current strife in Lebanon as the legacy of age-old religious conflict. Many of the ancestors of today's Lebanese population settled in the Shuf Mountains to take refuge from the religious persecution elsewhere in the Middle East. Lebanon developed, in the 18th and 19th centuries, into a state where members of different...
...they do. "Every house needs a door, and every country needs a border," says Colorado's Democratic Governor Richard Lamm. If the U.S. fails to stop illegal immigration, he warns, "we shall leave a legacy of strife, violence and job-lessness for our children." Florida's Senator Lawton Chiles is equally alarmist. "If we do not regain control of our borders . . . I think that within ten years, we will not recognize the United States as the United States we see today...