Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, the long-term effectiveness of the Bible-smuggling operations now seems threatened by scandal in the U.S. Underground Evangelism and Jesus to the Communist World have lately struggled in a bitter and squalid feud run out of their California headquarters. The battle involves a $1.5 million defamation suit rising from charges and countercharges made by Wurmbrand about Bass's personal behavior, and it threatens to spread to questions about Bass's ways of accounting for some of the $8.7 million a year his group raises. The situation could take years to untangle. The two organizations together depend...
...when they signed a treaty with Peking last year, were upset that China was practicing such blatant hegemony of its own. Some American policymakers took grim satisfaction at the ironic spectacle of five Communist countries?the Soviet Union, China, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos?caught in a bloody family feud. But there is not much to be satisfied about. China's shining image as a new friend intent on furthering peace and stability in Asia is suddenly badly tarnished...
...rival gangs of armed youths have carried on a running feud that claimed more than 1,000 lives in 1978 and 30 so far this year. There are signs that the terrorists will now turn to selective assassination of moderate targets like Abdi Ipekçi, the influential editor of Istanbul's daily Milliyet, whose unsolved murder early this month shocked the country. At the same time, sectarian clashes have broken out between Sunni Muslims, who tend to be right-wingers, and Shi'ite Muslims, who tend toward the left. Last December at Maras in central Turkey...
Iraq and Syria have taken steps in recent months to end their long political feud and lead the Arab opposition to the Camp David peace accords. Both hardline states oppose Egypt's peace moves and have vowed to build up their military challenge to Israel to compensate for Egypt's withdrawal from the conflict...
...lately Algeria has borrowed to the point that even interest payments on its $6 billion debt are a concern. Too many of the new industries require only a small labor force, providing little help for unemployed young Algerians. Agriculture is inefficient. Boumedienne also involved the country in a fractious feud with Morocco and Mauritania over the future of the former Spanish Sahara...