Word: strife
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Bayreuth has always been run by a Wagner, and now it is Richard's grandson Wolfgang, 75, who is in charge. As skilled a manager as his forebear, possessing just as combative and strife-prone a temperament, Wolfgang is the most visible person at the festival. He also conducts one of the behind-the- scenes highlights at Bayreuth, the press conference that follows a new production. This year he outdid himself in grouchy garrulity. Ignoring the journalists' humble need to get quotes from all major participants, he grabbed the mike and answered questions addressed to Rosalie or Alfred Kirchner...
...officials say strife in Rwandan neighbor Burundi, also torn by Hutu-Tutsi tribal tensions, now threatens the main food supply to refugee camps in Rwanda and Zaire. Relief workers fear that starvation in some parts of Rwanda could spark a new exodus of 800,000 Hutus across the border. U.N. officials, equally worried, say such a mass movement of refugees might also be prompted by the planned Aug. 22 departure of French troops...
...used to make up the U.S.S.R. Since the giddy days of 1991, when the republics scattered like schoolchildren at recess, independent life in what Russians call the "near abroad" has proved tougher than anticipated. Euphoria has slowly been replaced by disgust at the hardships of post-Soviet life: ethnic strife, political instability and government corruption. In the face of these problems, incompetent nationalist leaders, while touting the trappings of independence, have failed to deliver on essentials, such as economic prosperity and domestic tranquillity. The West, to which many of these new nations optimistically looked for salvation, has been both parsimonious...
Kozyrev: There is internal strife in Russia. There is a party of war, new imperialists, even fascists. Two days ago, I was so outraged by their attacks against me in parliament that I called them all "political bastards." They had called me a traitor for signing the Partnership for Peace ((with NATO)). I felt I had the right to answer them in kind...
Take, for example, President Rudenstine's re-appointment early last month, of Dunster House Co-Masters Karel and Hetty Liem to a two-year term. The Liems, of course, are the proud dictators of a strife-torn realm. Two years ago, they refused to rehire a non-resident tutor who expressed views they found disagreeable. And for some time, they allowed--even condoned--the behavior of a resident tutor who allegedly threatened and intimidated students and colleagues and practiced flagrant nepotism...