Word: friction
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...Friction between the U.S. and its Middle East ally Israel has been generating rhetorical sparks ever since President Reagan proposed his bold peace plan on Sept. 1. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's instant and fiery rejection prompted sharp criticism of the Begin government in official Washington and even among a number of American Jews. But all that was eclipsed last week as a series of shocking events in Lebanon set U.S. and Israeli policies on a potential collision course...
...willing to cooperate with the authorities, but the leagues have been disparaged by virtually all West Bank Palestinians, who view them as an attempt to divide their ranks. (League Leader Mustafa Dudeen scored only .2% support in the TIME poll.) But they are nonetheless a source of increasing friction because Israel is funneling money and patronage through the leagues rather than through municipal authorities...
...such fears seem disturbingly reflected in the worries facing current upperclassmen. For Damplo, the sixth of seven children in a family that earns $40,000 a year, this year's almost doubled payments--now totalling $11,500--have caused "a lot of anxiety and family friction. They didn't have to spend this much on anyone else." Her younger sister will go to a public college. Another element of Damplo's situation, while not uncommon, tends to complicate matters with the financial aid office: Because of high costs and numerous siblings, she splits all costs with her parents fifty-fifty...
Many sufferers compulsively change towels and sheets and wash their hands dozens of times a day. One sign of the herpetic, says Psychotherapist Herships, is chapped hands from overwashing. "You never think you're clean enough," he says. Since friction can trigger a recurrence, tight jeans, the uniform of the sexual revolution, are out. Men switch from jockey to boxer shorts, and women often give up wearing panties or pantyhose. One New York woman, a ballet dancer by avocation, could not dance for a year because tights and leotards were too painful...
...were Soviet forgeries. The department offered no proof, only the observation that the fakes fit a pattern of Soviet mischief-making in the past. The documents, which included letters that were purportedly signed by President Reagan and other high Administration officials, seemed designed to embarrass the U.S. and create friction with its allies. As it turned out, the forgeries were not very effective in stirring up trouble...