Word: quarrelling
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...said one bewildered State Department diplomat last week, commenting on an unprecedented and frightening display of Palestinian terrorism-directed not against the Israelis but against brother Arabs. The blood feud involved a long-running quarrel between Palestinians loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and Iraqi-backed "rejectionists," who believed that the P.L.O. leader was soft on Israel...
...weeks ago, the last of 513 Chinese military advisers and technicians departed from Albania, leaving behind 51 uncompleted aid projects, a deserted Chinese restaurant and the shambles of Chinese-Albanian friendship, which Chairman Mao described only two years ago as "inexhaustible and truly invincible." The origins of the quarrel lie in Albania's hostility to China's policy of rapprochement with the U.S. and the Third World and to Peking's warming relations with Albania's longtime enemy, Yugoslavia. Instead of attempting to patch up the quarrel, Peking apparently decided it was time...
...leadership's low threshold of irritability has also caused China's once close relations with Viet Nam to deteriorate into what one analyst called "China's worst foreign policy disaster since the Cultural Revolution cut the country off from the rest of the world." Ostensibly, the quarrel focuses on two issues: China's support for Viet Nam's inimical neighbor, Cambodia, and the fate of 1.2 million ethnic Chinese in Viet Nam. Peking accuses Hanoi of subjecting them to "persecution and ostracism." While Hanoi denies the charge, 159,000 refugees have crossed the border into...
Hovering behind the scenes in the intraparty quarrel was the formidable figure of Home Minister Charan Singh, 75, whose ambition to succeed Desai as Prime Minister is surpassed only by his abiding hatred for Indira Gandhi. Though temporarily incapacitated by a heart attack, Singh warned that Desai's action against Narain had "sounded the death knell of the Janata Party." At the same time, he launched his own indirect offensive against Desai by calling for Mrs. Gandhi's immediate arrest. Scorning Desai's view that she had been punished enough by her defeat at the polls last...
...disengaged from formal Socialist backing by withdrawing briefly, the Christian Democrats finally relented. On Saturday's 16th ballot, Pertini won with 832 votes-the largest total ever gained by an Italian presidential candidate. Although many right-wing Christian Democrats were disappointed by the outcome, few had any personal quarrel with Pertini. A native of Savona, on the Italian Riviera, he was imprisoned several times between 1925 and the end of World War II for his underground resistance work-first against Mussolini's fascist regime, later against the Nazis. He was co-founder of the postwar Socialist Party...