Word: strife
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...lately residents have been in a surly mood. SIERRA CLUB KISS MY AXE and NO SKIDOO NO CANOE, proclaim bumper stickers. A group of snowmobilers who whined into the forbidden area two winters ago and were promptly arrested are now local folk heroes dubbed the Ely Ten. The strife has also been marked by violence: car windows have been broken, tires slashed and 200-year-old trees felled to block access to the canoeing paradise...
...that he did not intend to change his mind. He said he had capitulated "to save human lives," and warned that "ideologies other than traditional ones" threatened to divide his country "into democratic and Communist peoples." But concern is growing that his failure to step down will provoke more strife. At week's end his political opponents launched a nationwide general strike that they hoped would continue until Somoza resigned or was ousted. Somoza's sarcastic response: "I wish them lots of luck." Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, who heads one of the few democratic governments...
Interestingly, as this nascent political partnership matured, the Protestant Jerusalem that was once the epicenter of sectarian strife has become, almost silently, Catholic turf. With the exception of a single neighborhood, called the Fountain, the old walled city of Derry today is almost exclusively populated by families who would have been excluded ten years ago. The change is hardly a tribute to any growing spirit of tolerance, however, since a prime reason most Protestants left was to seek more modern housing in the newly developed?and heavily Protestant?district of Waterside...
...resolution of the Rhodesian crisis. "The situation is just about as good as could be expected," a State Department specialist remarked last week. "In fact, we've made more progress than we thought possible 15 months ago." Those who favor an end to the strife in Namibia were hoping that progress would continue...
...real reason for the strife is China's suspicion that Hanoi has decisively come under Moscow's influence. Although Viet Nam has, in fact, attempted to maintain a balance between the two great powers, China paranoiacally fears a strong Soviet-backed state on its southern border. As a result, Vietnamese attempts at negotiation and reconciliation with China have foundered, and Hanoi may soon be obliged to turn increasingly to Moscow for both aid and moral support...