Word: strife
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...officials concede that the alternative could be a declaration of martial law. This would involve imposing military control over key sectors of the economy, local administration and law enforcement. But most authorities still hoped to avoid that drastic step, since it carried with it the danger of violent civil strife and Warsaw Pact intervention. Referring to the bloody suppression of the 1970 Baltic riots, in which several hundred workers were killed, Gdansk Party Leader Tadeusz Fiszbach told TIME: "I don't want to imagine the consequences of such a course of action. We say here in Gdansk, 'Never...
...assassination of Anwar Sadat. Following the detention of suspected Muslim radicals, said by the government to number 350 but unofficially estimated at 1,500, Egypt's universities reopened without incident. Troops continued to guard government offices and other public buildings, but there was no repetition of the strife that broke out in the southern Egyptian city of Asyut two days after Sadat's death...
...Indian allies to stay on their side of the water. After that, Paris seemed to lose interest in its third of the North American continent, and with French blessing, the newly independent nation of Louisiana unfurled its flag on July 14, Bastille Day, 1870. Now those unhappy days of strife are long forgotten, and America and Louisiana are friendly neighbors. Our own population is 75 million, according to the 1980 census, just 7 million less than that of Louisiana and its Indian protectorate, Amerinda. Our gross national product, however, is considerably larger: ?439 billion, compared with their combined total...
...world was shocked, but many members of the church hierarchy were considerably relieved. For at least a year, they had been concerned that the Pope's controversial leadership was leading the Christian community into serious trouble with Egypt's newly assertive Muslim majority. The climate of sectarian strife had resulted in several violent incidents in the past three months, including three days of communal rioting in a Cairo slum housing project that caused at least 17 deaths...
Then, to the surprise of his audience, Sadat declared that he had revoked a 1971 presidential directive affirming Shenouda as the leader of Egypt's 6 million Coptic Christians, who form 14% of the population. Sadat accused Shenouda of failing to assist his government in quelling sectarian strife. Among the detainees were eight Coptic bishops, 13 priests and 125 alleged lay activists, as well as 55 secular dissidents and intellectuals...