Word: foment
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...citizens of the Arab and Moslems countries. Nor do the Arabs and Moslems of the religion naturally hate the Israelis. It is the leaders of the countries who teach this overwhelming hatred. It is organizations like the PLO of Yasser Arafat and the "Islamic" Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini that foment this tremendous amount of negative energy. Negative energy and hatred can only lead to war and misery, not to freedom and peace...
...elders carefully laid out a perverse plan: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people to prevent them from thinking. Poison the spirit by destructive theories, weaken human bodies by inoculation with microbes, foment international hatreds and prepare for universal bankruptcy and concentration of gold in the hands of the Jews." Once launched, the Protocols were to prove as virulent as they were false...
...diplomacy. As the Soviets continue their vast military buildup, including both nuclear and conventional forces, the U.S. security guarantee has come to be seen as less convincing and, paradoxically enough, too frightening for a new generation of skeptical Europeans. Peace movements have spread. A long recession has helped foment cynicism about the need to defend an ailing consumer society, and the allies increasingly have been quarreling over financial and trade issues...
Khomeini has appointed Khoeyniha to direct Iran's mass hadj (pilgrimage) to Mecca, one of Islam's holiest rituals. His instructions: to foment agitation among the 2 million or so Muslims who will be flocking to Mecca in September. Khoeyniha will thus be Khomeini's agent to help promote the religious insurrection that the Ayatullah has vowed he will bring to Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich gulf states. TIME has learned that Khomeini told Khoeyniha not to be intimidated by the more moderate clergymen among the estimated 100,000 Iranian pilgrims. "Disobedience to you," asserted...
...concentrated near the port of Basra, the site of Iraq's major oil production facilities; in the center, near Amara, where Iranian troops are solidly entrenched within 200 miles of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital; and in the north, where Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has persuaded Kurdish dissidents to foment new trouble for the regime of President Saddam Hussein. In Tehran last week, Iran's Defense Minister, Mohammed Salimi, sounded a clear-cut warning: "Despite the superpowers' opposition, a push into Iraqi territory has become inevitable...