Word: disarray
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...seeming inconsistencies in American policy-like refusing to impose a grain embargo on the Soviets while simultaneously demanding sacrifices from the Europeans. Strained by a bewildering array of tensions, including disruptive left-wing demonstrations over nuclear disarmament and U.S. policy in El Salvador, the Western Alliance is in greater disarray than at any time since Jimmy Carter's sharp turn against the Soviets after the invasion of Afghanistan...
...disaffection and disarray mark an important new phase for the Eurocommunist parties. In the mid-'70s, European Communists caused considerable concern in the Western Alliance by increasing their strength. Their tactic: backing social and economic reform while espousing democracy. But in recent years they began to lose some of their appeal. In 1979, Italy's P.C.I, won only 30.4% of the vote, down from its alltime peak of 34.4% in 1976. France's Communists saw their support drop from 20.6% in 1978 to 16.2% last year. Events in Poland have now created a crisis of conscience. Says...
...party's increasing disarray prevented it from either smashing Solidarity or reaching an understanding with the union. Finally the regime's only stable and disciplined institution-the military-had to step in and do what the party itself could not. As one West European diplomat in Warsaw puts it, "Solidarity had become the country, and the country had said, 'Enough!' There was no way to dominate it except through martial...
...eminent domain. Engie Gouletas had foibles too. She incorrectly said that her first ex-husband was dead and claimed that there were only two exes, not three. On top of all that, American Invsco, a large real estate company owned by Engie and her brothers, tumbled into financial disarray...
Thus the people survive, indeed flourish, in spite of a vast gap between them and their ineffective governments. They survive in spite of a welfare system out of control, schools and social services in disarray, flagrant corruption and a bureaucracy so swollen and inept that it is mocked as lacci e laccioli, shackles and snares. A letter arrived two weeks ago at the home of one Giuseppe Baggio in Bassano Del Grappa. Baggio had mailed it to his mother from a military prison camp 37 years ago. Many Italians were surprised: the letter had actually arrived...