Word: strife
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...token annual tribute of two Kashmiri shawls and three handkerchiefs from the maharajah. Never since has the price of peace been as small. In the years after independence in 1947 split the Indian subcontinent into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan, the two nations have paid with strife and bloodshed to establish their conflicting claims over the disputed region. Last week, after 15 years of bitter wrangling, Indian and Pakistani delegates finally met in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi to seek a solution to the Kashmir problem...
...After Lie. Inevitably, Moscow's erratic behavior all that week again raised the question of internal strife in Moscow. Some Kremlinologists theorize that Khrushchev had dashed off the first excited note in a panic after convincing himself that the U.S. was on the verge of a Cuba invasion, then was forced by a more militant Kremlin faction to make his Turkey demand. But a majority of Western experts and diplomats see the zigzagging messages as evidence of Nikita Khrushchev's bargaining methods, or simply of confusion. In any case, argue several experts. Khrushchev could not have fired...
...Gaulle did not disguise his grand Carolingian design for a Europe dominated by the two nations. France and Germany, he emphasized, must urgently "reinforce their solidarity." Said he: "If we have put aside our quarrels and strife, it is not in order to doze. From this reconciliation we must fashion a common source of power, influence and deeds. L'union, pourquoi...
...mountains. At 32 he commanded all the rebel forces in western Algeria. He admits only one regret: the war's fratricidal purges in which, says he, "I had to send thousands of comrades to their deaths." He adds coolly: "Some were killed by the French, others by internal strife." ∙ In 1960 Boumedienne was given the task of "forming a national army" in the security of training camps in Morocco and Tunisia. He carefully built and husbanded a crack fighting force equipped with Communist-bloc weapons and indoctrinated with Marxist ideas. "It's the best group that ever...
President Kennedy last week addressed himself to civil strife in Albany, Ga. "I find it wholly inexplicable," said he at his press conference, "why the city council of Albany will not sit down with the citizens of Albany, who may be Negroes, and attempt to secure them, in a peaceful way, their rights. The U.S. Government is involved in sitting down at Geneva with the Soviet Union. I can't understand why the government of Albany . . . cannot do the same for American citizens...