Word: strife
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Whisper "Spain," and images well up from the back of your mind: toresdors, flamenco guitars. Carmen, and Don Quixote. Unfortunately, this romantic ideal has been all but trampled out by paternajistic yet persistent fascism. The political realities of Spain, a country of loosely bound provinces and great internal strife, obliterate the Spain of the Moors, of El Greco, and the Siglo...
Defending the role of his Libyan allies not long ago, Chad's provisional President Goukouni Oueddei boasted that since the Islamic legion had intervened, "peace and calm" had been restored to N'Djamena after nine months of bloody civil strife. Indeed, with the .exception of an occasional gunshot or the roar of a Libyan jet fighter wheeling overhead, within the capital an eerie quiet reigns. The bulk of the residents who fled N'Djamena when fighting broke out between Oueddei supporters and the rival forces of former Defense Minister Hissène Habré do not seem...
...regrouping near the town of Abeche, 400 miles northeast of the capital, where they are receiving assistance from both the Sudan and Egypt for a protracted guerrilla war. After 16 years of combat. Chad's 4.5 million people are bracing for yet another round of strife...
During the last 5 years civil strife between Palestinian and Christian forces has continued intermittently in Lebanon. Last week, two Iraqi diplomats were shot in Beirut, Lebanon's capital...
EVER SINCE the fifties, American foreign policy has been confronted by civil strife in developing countries. These countries find themselves torn between a right-wing that is undemocratic but pro-U.S. and a left-wing that supposedly began by admiring the American Revolution, but became radicalized because of U.S. disinterest in their cause and now are pro-Soviet. The American hope has always been to find a democratic, non-radical, viable "third force" in place of the other two unpalatable alternatives. In El Salvador, at long last, we are confronted by a real "third force." It, the present government...