Word: strife
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...press conference, held in the Rose Garden to the accompaniment of a mockingbird in a magnolia tree, Ford candidly spoke his mind and twice got into trouble. Asked about the racial violence in Boston schools, he unwisely said that he disagreed with the court-ordered busing that caused the strife, thus appearing to ally himself with the white demonstrators (see story page 22). Then, asked whether he favored phasing out the controversial oil-depletion allowance, which gives tax breaks to oilmen, Ford forthrightly replied: "The answer is yes." Next day, jogged by angry Congressmen from oil states, Ford explained that...
Since the beginning of "peace with honor" claims John Pilger, the narrator, approximately 70,000 Vietnamese have died in the continuing civil strife. Pilger says that despite Vietnam's low priority in the news, and despite the fact that most Americans may consider the war in Vietnam over, it is still very much America's war. In interviews with several U.S. civilians in a Saigon bar each man explains his job--many are technical experts and all share one viewpoint in common. That is, they're absolutely essential to the smooth functioning of the South Vietnamese effort. Without them...
...Strife is familiar enough to West Virginia, a state with a history of chronic coal-mining wars. Early in September trouble erupted again. Pickets closed coal mines and truck terminals in the Charleston area and surrounding Kanawha County and in five neighboring counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed...
...pages. His title, Days of 1945-1951, frames the journal in a convulsive period of Greek history that he never refers to overtly. The memory of World War II seeps into his writing like a shadow through the crack under a door, waning steadily. You realize that the civil strife in Greece, the intrigue of state politics and foreign intervention drains him, and the journal would be a weary monologue if he did not shrug them off. Even during his years at the Greek embassy in Turkey, he shies away from public record...
...solution to the Cyprus crisis is not taksim, the partition of the island into Greek and Turkish enclaves. Nor is enosis, union with Greece, feasible. As long as a Turkish minority resides in the midst of a Greek majority only strife and bloodshed will be the legacy for future generations. The mutual hatred that developed during the long centuries of Ottoman domination cannot be easily forgotten...