Word: strife
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...never set foor inside their schools; the President's smiling face and amiable manner should not confuse the issue. Protests over the integration of schools and universities were the seed from which the civil rights movement grew and provided some of the proudest successes in three decades of domestic strife. Some optimists might have thought that the eighties were to be a time for the nation to address some of the economic injustice that the first stage of the civil rights movement left virtually untouched. But this decision makes it clear that the Reagan administration will return the struggle...
...served as Peruvian Ambassador to Switzerland and to the Soviet Union before first heading his country's delegation to the U.N. in 1971. Waldheim has entrusted Pérez with a number of delicate missions. In 1975, he became the Secretary-General's special representative in strife-torn Cyprus. Four years later, Waldheim appointed Pérez Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Most recently, he represented Waldheim in an effort to solve the ticklish issue raised by the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan. In that assignment, which produced no concrete result...
...many, the weekend news of the imposition of martial law in Poland suggested an increased possibility of bloody, perhaps apocalyptic strife. For the men at 747 Cambridge St.--the home of the Polish American Citizens Association--the word from Warsaw, though painful, was not shocking...
Such a gradual transition just might placate white fears, while educating Blacks to run the country along with the whites. It would not jettison firm ties with the West; it would bypass the polarization and strife that come with revolution...
...Gary Trudeau (who else?) is another oversized collection of past cartoons; these excerpts from 1978-80 are particularly interesting because they are accompanied by previously muted comments from the satirist. Poland: Solidarity: Walesa is a well-written study of Poland during recent years, including a discussion of the current strife. A host of photographs accompanies the authoritative writing of three veteran journalists...