Word: fomenter
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...Mozambique (220,000 whites, 60,000 Asians, 8 million blacks) could have trouble. It has close economic links with South Africa, where apartheid supporters might try to foment a separatist movement among Mozambique's whites. Still, the transition will be greatly eased by the fact that there is only one liberation group, Frelimo, which enjoys recognition in Lisbon as the voice of most Mozambicans...
...NATO nations involved in an imbroglio. The crisis enabled Moscow to draw closer to Turkey by offering the nation encouragement and even possible aid, and thus recover some of the leverage it recently lost in the Middle East. It also offered Moscow an opportunity to foment disarray in NATO without risking serious damage to detente...
Remember: all men would be tyrants if they could...If attention is not paid to the ladies, we shall foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by laws in which we have no voice or representation...
...years ago for other matters--things like ordering illegal mass arrests of political dissenters, as John N. Mitchell did during the Mayday demonstrations of 1970--the most serious charges against Geneen aren't related to Watergate at all. They have to do with his company's admitted attempt to foment disorder in Chile in 1970, and the improper influence it and companies like it evidently exerted in getting the United States to offer the tacit support to the Chilean government's opponents that helped make September's coup possible. Geneen may be an accessory before the fact to the political...
Partly because of Judge Hoffman's earlier excesses, two appeals court decisions had thrown out not only the convictions of five of the seven for crossing state lines with intent to foment riots but also the 159 contempt citations handed down by Hoffman. The Government decided against retrying the riot charges, but U.S. Attorney James Thompson overcame the prosecutorial reluctance of superiors on the contempt issue because he believed that the obstructionist tactics of the defense during the first trial should not stand unpunished. After a five-week trial, Judge Gignoux concluded that only 13 of the contempt counts...