Word: strife
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...direction, the agency's performance in alerting Washington to the Russian missile buildup in Cuba in the fall of 1962 was flawless. Before the 1963 coup against South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, the CIA correctly predicted the coup, also warned against the internal strife that would follow. Last Sept. 17 McCone flatly predicted that the Red Chinese would explode their first nuclear bomb within 30 to 60 days. They...
...stability in the nation, Senanayake warned that the nation's Marxists were doing their best to foment racial and political strife. It seemed no idle charge. In the capital, Madame Bandaranaike, who had close ties with the Communists, was making no secret of her own intentions. She was the world's first woman Prime Minister, and she now declared: "I will set another record by playing the role of the first woman leader of the opposition." Recalling that Senanayake had once quit as Prime Minister after only a month-long rule, she added, "I shall fight and fight...
...peoples of Europe, for all their lingering animosities, have begun to develop more of a common loyalty to the whole region and idea of Europe. Moreover, adds Harvard Sinologist Professor Benjamin Schwartz, "The West has achieved the modern secular state, and its machinery does tend to control internal strife. But most Asian countries are not yet modern nations in this sense...
...great march was over, the last hallelujah had sounded from the speaker's stand, the crowd of some 25,000 had left the streets outside the starkwhite capital in Montgomery, and a period of relative peace seemed about to descend on Alabama's strife-torn civil rights scene. Then the white racists of Alabama, in characteristic fashion, shattered that peace by murdering a white woman from Detroit. This act of moronic savagery once again outraged the national conscience, provoked the President of the U.S. into a nationwide television outburst, in which he announced the arrest of four...
...surprising; the land that produced Sigmund Freud has a split personality on most matters. Its economy and government are run by a coalition of the cartel-minded Peoples' Party and the nationalization-minded Socialist Party. Austria has suffered less than its Western neighbors from inflation and labor strife because both parties agreed to let a government board rule on wage and price hikes. Almost 25% of Austria's economy is nationalized, including most of its basic industries, much of its banking, and two-thirds of its joint-stock companies...