Word: strife
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...usual, the accounts were sketchy, sometimes contradictory, and - as in the reports of pitched battles between forces totaling 50,000 men around Chungking - often exaggerated. But their message was clear. After a brief respite of army-imposed order, violence and civil strife are again spreading across China...
...provinces and replaced them with eight large provinces whose governors have neither full control of provincial police, as in the past, nor strong tribal ties. To reassure whites, he recently formed a "committee of intervention" composed of army men, government officials and whites whose job is to discourage racial strife. He has also removed the radical leadership of his wild Jeunesse (youth) movement, whose members last summer sacked the Belgian embassy and menaced whites in the streets of Kinshasa, the capital...
After Vietnam, of course, the American public is likely to be far more vigilant when any President begins a piecemeal commitment of American forces to small, strife-torn countries several thousand miles away., It should be recalled, of course, that the post-1965 stage of U.S. involvement in Vietnam saw McNamara make a number of rosy--and utterly specious--predictions about the future of our operations there...
Economic aid for the poor--not Black or White racism--is the way to end racial strife, Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, told a sympathetic audience filling Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
Worse & Still Worse. It was all too clear already that 1967 was shaping up as the biggest year of labor strife in more than a decade. In the first six months, reports the Labor Department, more man-days (14,470,000) were lost to strikes than in any like period since 1953. About the only hopeful development last week was an apparent end to the impasse between the railroads and six shopcraft unions. As ordered by a presidential arbitration panel, acting under an extraordinary congressional mandate, the railroads will grant an 11% wage increase over two years...