Word: strife
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...three days of clashes and at least 17 deaths. The event itself was unimportant, said Sadat, but was exploited by the regime's religious opponents as well as two legal opposition groups. The national security, declared Sadat, demanded the detention and trial of those who stirred up religious strife...
...massive wave of arrests was prompted, Egyptian officials explained, by Muslims and Christians who indulged in "irresponsible and suspicious acts." But political opponents of Sadat's regime charged that the President was exploiting the issue of religious strife to silence critics of Egypt's peace treaty with Israel and of endemic problems such as inflation, corruption and housing shortages. Said Khaled Mohieddin, leader of the leftist National Progressive Unionist Party: "Everyone who reads the names of the detainees will understand the aim of the campaign...
...arrests, several hundred Muslim zealots marched on a Coptic cathedral in Cairo, but were repulsed by riot police firing volleys of tear gas. Sadat's political response was equally firm. Late last week, he announced that he would show "no mercy" to Muslim groups involved in the strife and vowed to strip all powers from Pope Shenouda III, 117th Patriarch of the Coptic Church of Egypt...
Rother was the ninth priest-and first American-to die this year in Guatemala's continuing political strife. According to a report by Amnesty International, an organization that keeps track of political repression around the world, there have been some 5,000 political murders in Guatemala since Lucas García became President in 1978. No precise statistical breakdown is available, but most outside observers agree that the right is responsible for the overwhelming majority of the killings. Much of the violence is the work of government security units, which are waging an all-out campaign to crush...
...hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. The election cast a shadow over Anglo-Irish relations, particularly since both countries have been seeking ways to work toward a settlement in Ulster. The Agnew-Doherty issue could draw the Republic deeper into Northern Ireland's sectarian strife. Dublin had managed to keep its distance from the furor that followed the death of Bobby Sands, a member of the British Parliament, last month. I.R.A. strategists intend to deny that luxury in the future. Said one: "Will the Irish parliament remain silent, as the British one did, when...