Word: strife
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Throughout the U.S., the civil rights strife continued-and here and there some forward strides were made. A city-by-city summary...
...crystal pool of Beirut's Hotel Phoenicia. Then marching orders came from the United Nations in New York: by a 10-0 vote, with the Soviet Union abstaining, the Security Council last week approved Secretary-General U Thant's plan to send a U.N. truce team to strife-torn Yemen...
...officials in Saigon fear that the mounting religious strife can only benefit the Viet Cong by dividing the people and the predominantly Buddhist army just as the government forces are beginning to gain a military advantage over the Reds. Diem made some conciliatory gestures; but with the situation fast deteriorating, they might prove not to be enough. He ordered the removal of the barricades in Hue and in a nationwide radio broadcast admitted that some of his aides had not shown "sufficient understanding and sensitivity" in dealing with the crisis...
...Judaism," said he, "believes in making marriage laws to safeguard marriage and easy divorce laws to make it possible to repair mistakes made by the application of those strict laws. Judaism stresses the sanctity of marriage, and for that reason it does not condemn people to live together where strife and incompatibility would mar good family life...
...that will ultimately revert to Sarawak, the natives fought bitterly against British rule, even killed the second governor, who occupied the Brookes' old palace. The country has never recovered from the loss of its leader. When the Malaysian Federation (TIME Cover, April 12) comes into existence in August, strife-torn Sarawak will be one of its states and will have its best opportunity yet to achieve prosperity and stability. The last white rajah did not live to see that day. Last week, at 88, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke died in his London home. When the news reached Sarawak...