Word: strife
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...open-ended military commitment to a losing cause. So far, the Administration has done little to back up its most important contention, namely that the real U.S. aim in El Salvador is not a military victory but the political and economic framework needed for democracy to flourish in a strife-torn and bitterly impoverished region...
Enders' rhetorical questions pinpointed the reasons the Administration has taken such a firm position on El Salvador. That strife-torn country of 4.9 million people, roughly the size of Massachusetts, has the highest population density (593 per sq. mi.) and one of the lowest per capita incomes ($670 a year) in all of Latin America, and Washington is committed to support the Duarte government at a time when its survival is by no means cer tain. But the Administration fears that any slackening of U.S. support might lead to a major opportunity in Central America for Soviet-sponsored Cuba...
...fighters, and reasserted the country's fundamental commitment to the nonaligned movement. He has also taken a small step toward renewing ties with Moscow, which were all but severed last fall when Sadat expelled the Soviet ambassador, six diplomats and 1,000 technicians on charges of fomenting religious strife. Mubarak last week invited 66 Soviet technicians to return to fulfill their contracts on the Aswan High Dam and other projects, and added that an exchange of ambassadors with the U.S.S.R. was probably "inevitable...
Perhaps that is why the military reform group in Congress now includes nearly 70 members of Senate and House, Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative. And that is why Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, one of the original reformers, spent seven years studying and speaking on global strife and war. If Hart ever becomes President-and he surely wants to be-he has a grand strategy, which he has painstakingly assembled and polished and finally put down on paper in the past few days. It bears study right...
Since Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's black majority government took office in 1980, Zimbabwe has been haunted by the prospect of renewed racial strife between the dominant blacks and the whites, who make up less than 3% of the population but who still play a leading role in the country's economy. In recent months, whites have claimed that they were gradually being discriminated against by the government. Mugabe has increased the tension by charging that some of Zimbabwe's 180,000 whites are plotting against his administration. He has also announced harsh new measures to deal...