Word: strife
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...skillfully elusive commander of the Greek Cypriot underground during four years of bloody strife with the British, Colonel George Grivas was content to let exiled Archbishop Makarios and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis do the political talking. When peace came, the 61-year-old soldier returned to Athens for a hero's welcome, promotion to lieutenant general, a lifetime pension of $300 a month, and a well-earned rest. But it was not long before peace and quiet began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban...
...understood what they were working for. But after the Suez invasion, said he, they saw clearly that the job was to create a wholly new "cooperative socialist and democratic society." In the "radical change" about to begin, announced Nasser, the United Arab Republic will double its national income, eliminate strife between classes, provide equal opportunity...
...clangor of political strife resounded in Washington last week-not Democrats attacking Republicans, or vice versa, but Democrats flailing at Democrats. With time running out on the first session of the 86th Congress, Democrats exploded with pent-up frustration at their inability to make a partisan record and get hold of an issue. Their No. 1 target: their own shrewd, well-tailored Senate majority leader, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...calm, steamy night in Bone last week, and the residents of Algeria's fourth largest city (pop. 120,000) slept comfortably in the knowledge that, despite nearly five strife-torn years of war, the F.L.N. had never dared attack a big town. But less than three miles away, bivouacked in a French orange grove midway between the city and Bone's airport, a commando force of 47 rebels waited tensely for dawn...
Flags of Convenience. For more than four long, strife-torn years, Algeria had little local politics. But there have been three elections under De Gaulle, and as a result the majority of mayors across Algeria are now Moslem, Algiers itself (pop. 500,000) has a Moslem mayor, and Moslems increasingly are taking over administrative posts. The bar of Algiers' Aletti Hotel today resembles a smoking room of the National Assembly in Paris; politicians and lobbyists outnumber hotel guests 3 to 1, and talk about their problems with surprising openness. One Moslem municipal councilor, who won election on the Gaullist...