Word: strife
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Still, cacophonous notes of political strife and financial anxiety keep rumbling amid the harmony. Repeated attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf pose a delicate problem of how to protect Western oil supplies without risking U.S. involvement in the Iran-Iraq war. America's relations with the Soviet Union keep hitting new lows. There are indications that the London summit may not be quite the feast of self-congratulation over economic growth that had been expected. France, Germany and Britain, disturbed by tremors in the American banking system, are voicing renewed criticism of U.S. policies toward budget deficits, interest...
White remembers the racial strife that existed when he was a youth. "When I was a boy the real tensions were between the Irish and the Italians, and they were bitter, and they were physical, and they weren't just fun. But it was neighborhood turf...
...nagging problems of internal strife may not be resolved so easily. At a gathering of local editors in Harare last week, the Prime Minister hinted that he might impose even tighter restrictions on foreign journalists, whom he charged with a campaign to discredit his government. "It is far from being as ugly as they portray it," he said. "Zimbabwe will never die because the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Times of London and the New York Times continue to report unfavorably about us. We continue to make progress and to use whatever means are within our boundaries to survive...
...peace in Lebanon had been the presence of two foreign armies-the Syrian "peacekeeping" force and the military arms of the P.L.O.-each in its own right stronger than the Lebanese army. This de facto occupation had stripped the central government of its authority and created the conditions for strife among the religious and ethnic communities of Lebanon. The Israeli invasion added a third foreign army and, in the worst case, threatened to create, in southern Lebanon, a new zone of occupation...
...Ronald Reagan. But it is also important to strip away all the slogans and pieties masking the candidates and to realize that, among the Democratic hopefuls, Mondale offers the most realistic chance of turning around four years of Reaganism after reaching the Oval Office. After years of internecine strife, the Democratic candidates of 1984 stand fairly close on the issues; but it is only Mondale who has convincingly demonstrated through his long government experience that he can turn a liberal platform into practical policies. While other candidates talk big, Mondale does...