Word: strife
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...conflict. Says Prager: "Beirut was always the place where one took a plane to cover a story somewhere else. The change is . tragic, to put it mildly." He wrote the main Middle East story in this week's issue, and has contributed a personal view of the bloody strife in the Lebanese capital (see box page 27). He has even found time in New York to take in a few movies for the first time in many months and one Broadway play, Equus...
...time of the Ford decision, 50 Americans attached to the embassy and some 1,400 other American citizens remained in Beirut; more than 6,000 had left over the past year of strife. Still, Washington's order did not amount to outright evacuation; it simply "strongly urged" Americans to leave−part of a relatively low-key approach that envisaged the use of U.S. military force only as a last resort. The President called the killings a "senseless, outrageous brutality," but he also declared that the U.S. would not be "deterred from its search for peace by these murders...
After months of fruitless effort to bring peace to strife-ridden Lebanon, Syria last week upped the ante with a massive military intervention in an all-out attempt to enforce a long-elusive Pax Syriana. Instead of calming the situation, the move at first brought Damascus into bloody conflict with its erstwhile ally, the Palestinian guerrilla movement, and forced it into an unwanted, possibly only temporary, compromise in which other Arab states are sending token forces into Lebanon...
...smoke-filled salon of a 17th century Roman palazzo, Italy's Christian Democrats last week battled for the future of their strife-torn, dispirited party. After five hours of tense debate, party leaders finally emerged with a plan of action, a marked change after the vacillation and near paralysis that have gripped the governo diparcheggio, or "parking-meter government," slapped together two months ago under Premier Aldo Moro. They would make one last-and probably foredoomed-try to cooperate with the other parties on emergency economic measures. If that failed, they would have to accept the inevitability...
Separated from the barrios of Los Angeles and San Antonio and the strife-ridden fields of the San Joaquin Valley by 3000 miles, politicized Chicanos encounter a dilemna at Harvard--the absence of issues that directly concern their community. While some RAZA members do participate in UFW-sponsored pickets of local supermarkets, the organization has chosen to focus its energies on recruiting to expand the size of the Chicano community on campus...