Word: strife
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...fact that Peking's tightly controlled press is discussing these troubles so candidly does not mean that the country has plunged into a new period of strife. But it does indicate the government's deep concern with a persistent problem in China: political factionalism...
...call this civil strife anymore," said one Portuguese official in Luanda last week. "This is war." The latest and bitterest round of bloodletting between rival liberation groups had, in fact, left the Angolan capital a shambles. As thousands of whites sought to get out of the country, entire families crowded into the airport, waiting for any available flight out. Thousands of others, mostly blacks, jammed into the downtown section of the city in an effort to escape the fighting in outlying muceques (slums). After two hospitals closed down for lack of staff, medical teams were simply unable to cope...
...Beirut while en route from a conference in Pakistan to Ankara, where he serves on the U.S.-Turkish joint military mission. Wearing civilian clothes, he was in a Beirut taxi when armed terrorists halted the car and seized him. Lebanese authorities searched for Morgan and his captors throughout the strife-torn country in vain...
Leary, who will leave office August 30 after three years as school superintendent, answered questions for an hour and a half from a panel of four reporters, sounding discouraged about the strife that has accompanied busing in Boston and unhappy with the anti-busing Boston School Committee...
...seems clear that some of the old values and restraints have been battered by recent upheavals?war, riots, assassinations, racial strife, situational ethics, the youth rebellion. As disillusionment sets in, fewer and fewer Americans look to the churches, schools or Washington for moral leadership. Stern observers of today's widespread ethical torpor tend to agree with the 19th century French criminologist Jean Lacassagne: "A society gets the criminals it deserves...