Word: discordances
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...stunned. Through acts that made no sense, discord would descend once again on a society already weakened by ten years of upheaval over Viet Nam. As I considered what this portended for foreign policy, my heart sank. A nation's capacity to act is based on an intangible amalgam of strength, reputation and commitment to principle. To be harnessed, these qualities require authority backed by public confidence. But if Garment was right, authority inexorably would start draining from the presidency. The dream of a new era of creativity would in all probability evaporate. Even preserving what we had achieved...
Aggravating the problem of discord among NATO members are the growing European anti-nuclear movement and the resulting sentiment that the U.S. should withdraw its forces from Western Europe Rogers said...
...fact, the discord is being heard on Capitol Hill. Support for the President's economic programs among once loyal Republicans is beginning to weaken in Congress. "There are a lot of different signals,'' complained Republican Representative Jack Kemp of New York. In the House, Democratic leaders, with the help of Republican defectors, last week pushed through an appropriations bill for social programs to cost $87.3 billion in fiscal 1982, some $4 billion more than Reagan had wanted. Though the bill came within a whisker of matching Reagan's first round of budget slashes...
...Still, he set standards and tried to live up to them, no matter how unpopular his actions proved'to be. While the peace initiative was well received in Egypt, it earned Sadat the wrath of the rest of the Arab world. More recently, Sadat struck harshly at internal discord, detaining 1600 opponents to his regime, mostly Moslem militants. That repressive measure is believed to have directly instigated his assassination...
...fall of 1982. In the meantime, conservatives hope that John Paul will use his considerable influence to see that the next superior general is a man in his own mold, while liberals look for a successor who will further open the order to change. Yet both see the present discord as the sort of storm that Ignatius Loyola regarded as useful. Says Father Thomas Cullen, an American missionary in Brazil: "There is always going to be tension within the Jesuits between the sacred and the secular...