Word: strife
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With greater strife will come increased government repression, Pogrund predicts--much worse than that which has already jailed, severely restricted or exiled members of the two major nationalist groups, the Black Peoples Congress and the South African Students Organization...
Hayakawa, 70, the incautious anti-Establishmentarian, whose thin mustache appears to be a reluctant concession to the hairy types he used to do battle with on the San Francisco State College campus, where he was president during the strife-torn late '60s. In campaign appearances, the too earnest Tunney has an answer to every question, often couched in; the type of Senate-ese that Semanticist Hayakawa believes the voters no longer even try to understand...
...important index of party unity will be whether the naming of people to top posts that have remained unfilled because of deaths and factional strife goes smoothly. The vacancies have seriously slowed the pace of decision making in Peking-particularly on sensitive political issues...
...better," says Arizona Congressman John Rhodes, who will serve as permanent chairman of next week's Republican Convention. "I'd like to have it as dull as the Democrats did." Rhodes is unlikely to get his wish. In fact, preventing the convention from degenerating into factional strife is the job confronting Rhodes and three other Republicans who will spend much of their time on the podium at the Kemper Arena. The four...
More than anything else, the strife in Lebanon is responsible for Britain's Arab influx. Most of the recent arrivals are vacationers from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states, or temporary refugees from Beirut. In the past, rich sheiks from the desert states fled to the cool mountains of Lebanon for the summer; this year they went to England, only to meet an unprecedented heat wave. Many Beirutis use London as a haven for their families and a substitute financial capital while they continue to do business by jetting around the Middle East. "London was the next best...