Word: strife
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...Kabul have found no evidence that all this was on Moscow's orders. In fact, Soviet representatives in Afghanistan confide that they have advised the feudal country's new rulers to move and talk with caution. Apparently the Russians are wary of being drawn into civil strife in a country on their border, should the Taraki regime run into trouble...
...last days of Imperial Russia's Czar Nicholas II in 1917, or France's King Louis XVI trying to stem the revolutionary fervor that was eventually to sweep him from his throne in 1792. In a televised address to his rebellious country, the Shah announced that he was placing strife-and strike-torn Iran under temporary military rule. Simultaneously, however, he pledged to meet virtually all the demands of his regime's opposition?all, that is, except for his own abdication from the Peacock Throne...
...where games and horseplay abound. With the help of Designer Sally Jacobs' simple set, he reaches boldly for a world that cannot be onstage: the great battles. The foreground is partly enclosed by six long translucent panels; behind them is a deep background, a shadowy terrain full of strife, the comings and goings of soldiers, sailors, messengers and serfs...
...Streets are filled with the dead and dying, their moans drowned by the ceaseless thunder of the exploding shells. Somehow, a voice rises above the din, proclaiming, 'I can hear myself dying.' Said one resident of the strife-torn city who has vowed never to return: I shall pray for those who are fighting. Prayer is the only hope that they have left...
...troubled Lebanon had lost a potent moderating force in the Imam. As a political as well as spiritual leader of the country's most impoverished community, he had founded technical schools, sports centers and medical clinics for the poor. He had repeatedly attempted to head off bloody sectarian strife. In 1975, during the Lebanese civil war, he interrupted an antiwar hunger strike to persuade Muslim guerrillas to lift the siege of a Christian village, and thus averted a massacre. Last week many of his followers were praying that Moussa Sadr was carrying out a 1,200-year-old prophecy...