Word: strife
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...said John Lynch, Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, after two days of emergency talks with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Held at Chequers, the country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers, the meetings dealt with the current civil strife in the British province of Northern Ireland. The talks did nothing to bring Ireland's Catholic South and Protestant North any closer to union. But they did produce an unprecedented concession from the British government: an invitation to the Irish Prime Minister to participate in tripartite discussions with Heath and Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner...
...know we're all fed up with useless wars and racial strife...
...three Soviet cosmonauts and the safe voyage of three American astronauts, the historic Kissinger mission to Peking, coup attempts in Africa, the shooting of Joe Colombo and the political conversion of John Lindsay. Then there are the continuing dramas, like the agony of East Pakistan and the civil strife in Northern Ireland, that show no respect for vacation schedules...
AFTER four days and nights of guerrilla warfare, a ghostly stillness settled over Northern Ireland. But the rubble, the occasional curls of smoke and the death notices in the newspapers remained as hideous reminders of the worst outbreak of civil strife in the 50 years since the partition of Ireland. In its brief span, the fighting claimed the lives of 25 men and women, including three of the 12,500 British troops on duty in Northern Ireland. It sent at least 5,500 Catholics streaming over the southern border into the Irish Republic; it forced at least 1,500 Protestants...
...Gang Rape. The inerrancy doctrine is at the heart of the present strife. Preus and many other conservatives take the fundamentalist view, which holds that such biblical passages as the Adam and Eve account and even Jonah's journey inside the whale are historically true. For most moderates, however, inerrancy means rather that major doctrines, such as original sin, are divinely inspired truth, while specific stories like that of Adam and Eve or Jonah could be just illustrations of a larger truth...