Word: strife
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When Indian border forces arrived ten hours later, they found 350 bodies stacked in heaps along a narrow strip of road. It was one of the worst outbreaks of communal violence in a decade and another tragic demonstration of the strife that has long plagued India's northeast territories. The death toll from the massacres at Mandai and other villages is expected to reach at least...
...strife mounts, Khomeini denounces the nation's chaos...
...seemed more aware of the strife swirling in Iran than Khomeini. Just two days before the Tehran street clashes, in a speech to his provincial governors, he had issued an extraordinary warning of impending "chaos." Said he: "I am worried that the Islamic Republic could be defeated by those who are on our side. If dissension among us continues, then we shall destroy one another." Thus after months of thundering against the U.S. and other allegedly demonic foreign forces, Khomeini had finally admitted that the greatest threat to his regime stemmed from its own internal conflicts...
Zealous nationalism stirs strife...
...West Bank since it was captured by Israel in 1967. Many were moved by an idealistic conviction that they were settling in Eretz Israel, the biblical land of the prophets. Others had more contemporary, political motives. In any case, their zealous nationalism has spawned increasingly violent bouts of intercommunal strife between Arabs and Jews. As the reciprocal hostility has mounted, youthful Jewish settlers often roam among the Arab districts, smashing windows and slashing tires, even invading Arab homes and beating up their occupants. The nationalists have also acquired disproportionate political power and independence within Israel, to the point that some...