Word: quarrelling
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...holdings in Thailand are for the day when the war ends and "mon general" must flee the country-the day when, as the peasants put it, Prince Souphanouvong, commander of the Pathet Lao, beats out his older but less educated half-brother, Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma, in this family quarrel...
...skin on his hands has rotted off, a shotgun blast in the stomach, an actress-carhop who has used so many names that she has almost forgotten the one she was born with. Finally, one of the officers meets a sudden, cruelly meaningless death while investigating a routine family quarrel...
Double Folly. Nothing could be more remote from Richard Nixon's intentions. To accept willingly new U.S. ground-combat commitments in Southeast Asia would be folly on both strategic and political grounds, and the White House knows it. The quarrel is not over U.S. intentions but over the methods by which Nixon seeks to leave the field. While convincing the home audience that the U.S. is irreversibly quitting the war, the President must keep Hanoi sufficiently off balance to avert any military disaster until American forces are well clear. Thus the rationale for the Cambodian and Laotian air actions...
Libyan Leapfrog. The current quarrel started last summer when the revolutionary Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi set out to pump better terms out of the producing companies. Libya has a strong bargaining position. Its chief port of Tripoli is located only 600 miles from Rome. Most other Middle East oil must be shipped over a long and costly route to Europe. Libya demanded a 30? increase in the posted price of its oil-the price used to calculate the tax paid by companies. That would bring it to $2.53 a barrel. Gaddafi also insisted that the traditional...
...eloquence of the Indians themselves. Following the cliché, most of them actually do speak "with heavy hearts" about their betrayals. Some, like Chief Joseph of the Nez Percés. are sharply ironic. "We do not want churches," he told a white agent. "They will teach us to quarrel about God. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about...