Word: foment
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...rioting in the holy city of Mecca in which 400 people were reported killed. In Jidda last week Prince Naif, the Saudi Interior Minister, held a rare press conference at which he charged that Iran had plotted a "conspiracy" in sending Shi'ite Muslim "criminal gangs" to Mecca to foment trouble against the Saudis...
...domicile the newly religious and repentant military man now admits was paid for with bribes. "This is an illegitimate government that has created an institutionalized crisis," he told TIME. "I knew that the only way to change the system is to get rid of Noriega." He hopes he can foment a rebellion that will bring down the general. In addition to his accusations concerning Torrijos, Diaz charged that Noriega helped rig the 1984 presidential elections and that the Defense Forces masterminded the 1985 torture-murder of a Noriega opponent, Dr. Hugo Spadafora...
...People's Daily. Indeed, Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping had recently acknowledged that China's "deep economic reform should be accompanied by corresponding political reform." But, surely, continued the editorial, the students did not want to re-create the "anarchism" of the Cultural Revolution, when young people were mobilized to foment widespread turmoil. Anyone who tried to "obstruct the progress of the reform," warned the People's Daily, "would eventually eat bitter fruit...
...poetry the best way for Ginsberg to foment his "world revolution"? "It's the only way. Because ultimately it's a psychological revolution....People are controlled by language, their thought patterns. He who controls language controls minds...
...Because the camps foment radicalism and provide a steady-supply of dirty and deprived young boys to send on suicide missions inside of Israel. Peace would be bad for Arafat's personal political fortunes and would not serve the purposes of his Saudi bankrollers. Just this Saturday, P.L.O. spokesmen renounced the peace process and renewed their commitment to armed struggle. If the Palestinians hadn't existed, the leaders of the Arab world probably would have invented them...