Word: strife
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...early Sunday morning in Lebanon, the beginning of an October day that promised even in that strife-riven country to draw crowds to the beaches and strollers to the corniches. Only the cooks were up and about in the reinforced-concrete Aviation Safety Building on the edge of the Beirut International Airport, used as headquarters by the Eighth Marine Battalion of the U.S. part of the peace-keeping force. Built around a courtyard, the headquarters contained a gymnasium, a reading room, the administrative offices and the communications center for the battalion. It was also sleeping quarters for some 200 Marines...
...Strife at Eastern and Continental shakes the airline industry
...chaos stemmed largely from labor strife at Continental and Eastern, two of the largest and most financially troubled airlines. Continental (1982 revenues: $1.4 billion), which lost $84 million in the first half of 1983, was struck by its pilots and flight attendants on Oct. 1 after it had first filed for protection from creditors under bankruptcy laws and then ordered its workers to take pay cuts that in some cases exceeded 50%. At Eastern (1982 revenues: $3.76 billion), where losses reached $128.9 million during the three quarters that ended last month, Chairman Frank Borman gave employees an ultimatum: accept wage...
...with varying degrees of intensity on college campuses and by other marching in many American cities. Their voices have been quiet in recent weeks, distracted by tragic events taking place in other regions of the world America's involvement in EI Salvador and other Central American nations torn by strife and the political philosophies of East and West, set off alarms from coast to coast that the United States, under the Reagan Administration, was about to step into another bloody quagmire...
Eventually the political reality became too intrusive to ignore. Refugees from the strife-torn countryside swarmed into the cities; Lien's bookkeeping included a growing number of customers who "borrowed" food from the store. On one occasion a government soldier threatened to pull a grenade pin after Lien's mother refused to give him free beverages. Lon Nol's corrupt, American-supported regime, coupled with U.S. bombings of enemy sanctuaries inside Cambodia, not only bolstered the communist opposition, but also made Lien and her fellow countrymen long for victory by the so-called "gentle, smiling Khmers...