Word: strife
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...became President here during a very troubled period on college and university campuses. The fears, accusations, strife and excitement which at that time upset academic communities reverberated about the name of Joseph McCarthy. I felt I had something of an advantage over many academics in understanding the difficulties then because I had known the chief enemy-had often seen him face to face. We had lived in the same town for a number of years and had talked from time to time as our paths fortuitously crossed. He was for me not merely a newspaper personality...
...racial divisions that underlie much of the violence in the U.S. are beginning to follow the flag. Black and white strife of the sort that has swept such Stateside bases as Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg is turning up at U.S. military facilities overseas. The situation is so volatile among the 185,000 G.I.s stationed in West Germany that the Pentagon has decided to dispatch a team of military and civilian experts to investigate. When the team arrives this week in Europe, it will have plenty to study...
...NATO's shield in Europe. Until recently, the Seventh Army has had a reputation as a highly disciplined elite unit. But during the past six months the Seventh's image has been rudely shattered by the emergence of racial invective in the barracks plus bitter, sometimes bloody strife between black and white G.I.s. In Friedberg. a mob of 25 club-swinging black G.I.s roamed through the downtown bars, injured three white G.I.s, who had to be hospitalized, and terrorized most of the German citizenry. Another crowd of black troops descended on a civilian police station in Schweinfurt...
Most Southerners seemed relieved that the strife was over. In Richmond, where 13,000 of the city's 50,000 pupils are bused to school, Republican Governor Linwood Holton set an example of calm compliance. He personally escorted Daughter Tayloe, 13, to her ninth-grade classroom in the newly integrated John F. Kennedy High School. "It's always hard for a child to change schools," said Holton, whose two other children also attend biracial schools. "But my children go where they are assigned...
...Chad government claims the strife is nothing more than a tribal dispute and Chad President Francois Tombalbaye has called the insurgents "incipient bandits." But sources say that 2.000 French Foreign Legionnaires-veterans of the Algerian war-would not have flown in to quell a minor tribal flare-up. The war is now waging in most provinces and has considerable support throughout the country...