Word: strife
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Arriving at a national guard outpost in northeast Managua, the heart of the fighting last week in strife-racked Nicaragua, ABC Correspondent Bill Stewart sensed it would be safer to approach on foot. Though his van was emblazoned with FOREIGN PRESS signs, he did not want to do anything that might spook the government troops. In one hand Stewart carried his government-issue press pass; in the other, he held a white flag. His interpreter walked several yards ahead, explaining that they meant no harm...
...Tories entered the campaign with a lead of up to 21% in early polling. That was largely a result of public anger and frustration over a bitter winter of strikes and industrial strife that severely undermined Labor's claim to be the only party that could deal successfully with Britain's powerful trade unions. As the campaign continued, the Tory lead steadily dwindled; two days before the election one poll even showed a slight Labor edge. There seemed little doubt about the reason for the decline: the personality of Margaret Thatcher. To avoid a major gaffe by their outspoken leader...
...strife afflicting southern Africa, the little republic is something of an oddity. It is a place where a benign and popular government reigns over a modest society that is notably free of corruption, has never fought a war with its neighbors, never held a political prisoner, and does not bother to arm its police. Its currency is stable and its economy remarkably robust. It has a multiparty parliamentary system and is preparing to hold its fourth general election since it attained independence from Britain in 1966. The country is Botswana, and its state of health is all the more remarkable...
Despite the tension on its borders, Botswana has remained markedly free of both tribal and racial strife. Khama, who was once banned from his homeland after his marriage in 1948 to a white Englishwoman, Ruth Williams, a former London secretary, has had much to do with maintaining this harmonious atmosphere...
Across the U.S. and abroad, protesters poured into the streets in a flashback to the strife-torn 1960s; a new cause had galvanized supporters. Proponents of nuclear energy were on the defensive, and the critics exulted in a chorus of I-told-you-so's. Addressing a crowd of 3,000 on the Boston Common, Massachusetts State Representative Richard Roche shouted, "We're in the mainstream now!" Said Brett Bursey, a leader of the antinuclear Palmetto Alliance in South Carolina, where there are four nuclear plants in operation and six under construction: "In the last few days, people...