Word: strife
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...Reagan Administration last week launched a carefully orchestrated campaign to demonstrate that the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam and other Communist nations have been smuggling arms to the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The Administration's motive is to win support for increased U.S. military aid to that strife-torn nation, and the intensity of the effort is stunning...
...commanded by white officers and once the scourge of Zimbabwean guerrilla fighters. By week's end the national army troops had regained control of Bulawayo. Up to 1,000 dissident ZIPRA troops disappeared into the bush. Many carried their machine guns and grenade launchers with them, auguring more strife...
...French freelance photographer; of injuries received on Jan. 15 when he was shot by a sniper in San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador, while on assignment for Newsweek; in Hialeah, Fla. Rebbot was the second journalist to be killed and the third to be wounded this year in the civil strife in El Salvador. Another, American Freelance Writer John J. Sullivan, is missing and presumed dead...
...moment on Inauguration Day, the stories, both intertwined and competing, unfolded, building to a happy ending. The final act began at 11:42 a.m. in Washington as a Marine baritone, Michael Ryan, launched into the third verse of America the Beautiful. 'O beautiful for heroes proved/ In liberating strife," he sang from the podium on the Capitol's West Front, where in minutes Reagan would be sworn in as President. At that moment, the news began to spread of a wire-service bulletin, "Hostages free." A murmur emanated from those in the vast crowd who had brought their...
...Napoleon Duarte, President of the U.S.-backed civilian-military junta, promised an "extensive investigation" into the murders of Hammer, Pearlman and Viera, but was vague about what interests in the strife-torn country might have been responsible. At first, he said the killings were "an action of the extreme right," but then he added, "Of course, it could be the left." Officials believed that Viera, 39, had been the killers' main target, that the two Americans might have been shot solely because they happened to be with...