Word: strife
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...strife-torn island of Cyprus was hit by yet another crisis last week. As hundreds of cheering Turkish Cypriots listened over loudspeakers in Nicosia, their acknowledged political leader, Rauf Denktas., announced the formation of a separate federal state in the Turkish-occupied northern sector (see map). Denktas, 51, who will head up the new state, offered to join with Greek Cypriots in a federation if they should choose to form a similar state. But he flatly declared that "there is no possibility of living together with the Greek-Cypriot co-founders of the Republic of Cyprus." A 50-member constituent...
...Meouchi played a major role in the delicate politics of Lebanese Christians and Moslems. Named bishop of Tyre in 1934 after serving in California, Indiana and Massachusetts parishes, he worked to prevent sectarian conflict, siding with Moslem opposition to Lebanon's Christian President Camille Chamoun in 1958 civil strife and recently supporting Palestinian territorial claims. Meouchi counted Jordan's King Hussein and Egypt's Anwar Sadat as friends, once blessed a delegation of Moslem mullahs as they prayed to Mecca: "The British have a well-known phrase, 'In His Majesty's service,'" Meouchi explained...
Over the years, East St. Louis, a dingy and decaying industrial town on the banks of the Mississippi in southern Illinois, has had more than its share of corruption, racial strife and machine politics. In fact the city (pop. 70,000) has been the virtual fiefdom of a firmly entrenched Democratic machine...
...otherwise judicious commentator last week. William Raspberry, in his Washington Post column, speculated about whether Nixon should receive a state funeral or a modest ceremony commensurate with his inglorious exit from office. A state affair, Raspberry warned, might result in "the inflaming of anti-Nixon passions and renewed political strife." Raspberry worried whether "someone will be sufficiently hateful and tasteless to do something that would shatter whatever dignity a state funeral would confer." Picketing the bier? Stoning the hearse...
...plan reflects Giscard's fear that rising French unemployment (estimated last month at 2.3% of the labor force) could lead to violence reminiscent of May 1968, when France was paralyzed for weeks by student strife and workers' strikes. The potential for trouble is again running high, with French inflation galloping at a rate of 14.5% a year...