Word: feud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Benazir Bhutto tenderly sprinkled red and yellow flowers on her father's marble tomb last week, the scene amounted to only a brief respite from a family feud of royal proportions. Just minutes earlier, Pakistani national police had prevented her mother from making the same gesture -- by firing tear gas and bullets at the 63-year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed...
...disclaimers by the CIA that its officers were unaware the National Guard was in the drug trade for profit. McFarlin, says a DEA man close to the investigations, "was no naive child, and neither was his boss." And he raises the specter of a heightened interagency feud. "The DEA has knowledge that the CIA had knowledge about what the Guard was doing. They didn't try to stop it." Furthermore, he says, "they didn't advise the DEA." The congressional intelligence committees are likely to investigate the matter further...
EUROPE: Blood Feud...
Bennett's play is Shakespearean in its scope and reach; A straightforward account of the king's descent into and recovery from madness becomes a political and social commentary through Bennett's devastating use of language: Doctors feud over whether blisters or induced vomiting is the most effective treatment, politicians conspire over the raving body of the king--the twenty odd characters in The Madness of George III are involved in so many different intrigues it's a wonder that the audience can see straight...
...Israel's declaration of independence, five Arab armies invaded the country from all directions. The Jewish section of Jerusalem was besieged for several months, bombarded by Jordanian artillery from the east and by Egyptian forces from the south. What had been, since the beginning of the century, a neighborly feud between Arabs and Jews turned that night into a major international...