Word: strife
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...Ever-Present Shadow. The Chinese, who make up nearly all of Malaya's 1,800 Red guerrillas, are also at the bottom of Abdul Rahman's other chief headache-the threat of racial strife in Malaya. Of the new nation's 6,000,000 citizens, 49% are Malay and nearly 38% are Chinese. (The remaining 13% are mostly Indians and Pakistanis.) Abdul Rahman, one of whose adopted daughters is Chinese, has a long record of successful political cooperation with Malaya's Chinese, and the Ministers of Finance and Commerce in his new Cabinet are Chinese...
...killed, Helga, bearing the medicines, sets off alone across a bridge, ignoring the fusillades that crackle from both banks of the river it spans. Then the enemies, in one of those little miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize her as a figure of mercy transcending their strife. Both sides call for a ceasefire. Dr. Helga delivers her package to her enemies, staggers back toward her German compatriots, collapses upon the bridge. The cease-fire was ordered too late. A stray bullet-little matter whose-has mortally wounded...
...Washington's strife-spiced Senate caucus room last week, witnesses before the Senate Labor Rackets probers squirmed through the best soap opera that daytime TV could provide (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Although the major networks decided that one of the year's best running stones did not justify the heavy cost of carrying it, Manhattan's public-service-minded Du Mont Broadcasting Corp. was forking out $50,000 to cover the 5½ hours of hearings daily for three weeks. The telecast unfolded first on Du Mont stations WTTG in Washington and WABD in New York, by week...
Last March, when Nigeria's Federal House of Representatives voted to seek independence, Abubakar Balewa, the Northerner, warned his countrymen against the results of such feckless politicking. "We must do all in our power," he said, "to protect our country from the civil discord and strife into which some countries-and here I am thinking of Indonesia-have fallen after achieving independence." The Colonial Office, in its anxiety to see that the transfer of power is peaceful, has an even more unhappy comparison in mind: that of India and Pakistan, whose baptism of freedom took place in a bath...
...evil, that military personalities seek to make themselves dictators through recourse to the arms that the people themselves pay for. We shall so conduct ourselves that the army, in a democratic spirit, as in such other countries as the U.S., England and France, may remain aloof from partisan political strife...