Word: strife
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...indispensible to the talks. In essence, all the keys are in his pocket; neither Arab nor Israeli has had anything but dealings with Henry Kissinger since the end of the October War. In the end, his effort to be the mortal who moves mountains can only lead to continued strife. By now, twenty-seven years after the first Arab-Israeli war, the warring parties should not, and cannot afford to, depend on the good offices of one man in their mutual quest for peace...
...shame that busing advocates cannot see what blind support for such a program has caused them to become. In response to the strife caused by busing, many supporters have called for more force. What kind of liberal asks for troops and tanks to impose this plan on an unwilling public? Is busing so important that its advocates are willing to impose a police state to see it enforced...
...recognize the failure of its foreign policy in Vietnam and Cambodia. When Congress makes the final decision on U.S. military and to Cambodia and Vietnam on April 10 it should say "no" to support for their corrupt regime and it should say "no" to continuing the strife of those peoples who have not known peace on self determination in two generations...
University Hall, at the time, seemed to offer (along with the strife) a good deal of promise and initiative. Chief issues, aside from the pervasive demonstration issues, were merger and educational reform, and U-Hall was in the proper vanguard. Now, by contrast, students seem routinely treated as distant and foreign by an administration which seems more concerned with cost and efficiency than anything else...
...superficial level. Bok refers to the loss of public confidence in the government because of the "divisive" issues of Vietnam, the "spectacle" of Watergate, and the failures of major federal programs such as the "New Frontier" and the "Great Society" to deal with problems like urban decay and racial strife...