Word: strife
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...Salvador, he was in a difficult spot. Under a measure enacted late last year, the Administration must provide Congress formal certification every six months that El Salvador is improving its record on human rights and expanding economic benefits to the poor in order to maintain foreign aid to that strife-torn nation. But reports had reached members of the committee that human rights violations were still taking place. Enders thus made a careful pitch. Arguing that the Administration was by no means blind to the faults of the San Salvador government, he nonetheless insisted: "We believe the facts amply justify...
...internal strife increases, Zimbabwe fears a slowdown in its campaign to attract more foreign aid and investment, which it desperately needs to counter the effects of its civil war. The country anticipates gaping budget deficits as it seeks to finance health-care programs and universal education. On a recent fund-raising tour of European governments, Prime Minister Mugabe attempted to convince his hosts that his much publicized split with Nkomo does not jeopardize Zimbabwe's stability. Last week the U.S. signed three agreements worth some $5.5 million in training and food, bringing total U.S. aid to Zimbabwe...
...leaders, and his frequent fear for his personal safety. The journalist naturally has an eye for the unusual anecdote MacNeil got directions to a telephone immediately after the Kennedy assassination from a man experts now believe was Lee Harvey Oswald Rather than settle for the stock picture of political strife, he paints a vivid image of a policeman threatening to blow a young organizer's head off with a revolver in a Chicago hotel...
...Moslem Sectarian Strife: A great deal of misinformation has been spread in the Western press concerning religious differences in Iraq. It is true that religious and sectarian differences could create problems in some countries, but not in Iraq. I am not saying we do not have any problems at all. Any leader would prefer his people to think from one point of view, to be of one religion, one sect, in one city. The Iraqi people think from various angles but agree on one central point. We have Sunnis and Shi'ites here, that is a fact...
...coup is circulating on the dinner-party circuit in Mexico City. There is little likelihood of such a thing: the Mexican military has stayed removed from civilian affairs for half a century. The army is far more disturbed about the insurrectional possibilities along Mexico's southern border with strife-torn Guatemala, where guerrillas are believed to be taking refuge...