Word: discordance
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...Discord on Asia...
...essay "Discrimination and Discord in Asia" [April 9] hits the target, but being a Sindhi myself, I can say that Sindhis and Punjabis have been living no less peacefully in the past few centuries than the English and the French...
...into the modern era. Relatively unharried by reformers and modernizers, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism reached the 20th century with their ancient, fossilized social doctrines nearly intact. Hinduism's caste system, Buddhism's ambiguous attitude toward worldly institutions, Islam's hatred of infidels-all perpetuate intermittent communal discord...
...harvest, and there is no room to store this year's crop. Anti-government bands roam the mountains of Kabylia, and last month a clumsy attempt was made on Ben Bella's life. So far, Ben Bella has maintained control through his ingenuity in sowing discord among his foes and by frightening the masses with the prospect of civil war if he is overthrown. The situation is summed up by a wry Western joke heard in the cafes: "Algeria is a developed country that is moving toward underdevelopment...
...devices as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Common Market and countless little meetings among world bankers. Last week, as 130 bankers from 14 nations assembled in Vienna's baroque Palais Schwarzenberg for the annual international conference of the American Bankers Association, some major signs of discord and conflict came to the surface. Said one top U.S. economic policymaker: "There's a tendency to see the divisive factors in the Atlantic alliance as strictly political. Actually, some of the worst problems are economic...