Word: rancor
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...without rancor...
...Senate vote had seemingly put an end to the controversy, Ronald Reagan needlessly started it anew. At his Wednesday night news conference, the President defended Helms' "sincerity" even as he pledged to sign the holiday bill. Leading Democrats quickly demanded that Reagan disavow Helms. The notes of rancor were doubly distressing because the new holiday is intended to symbolize the commitment of all Americans to racial equality. Bills to establish King's birthday (which actually is Jan. 15) as a national holiday had been introduced in every session of Congress since the charismatic minister was assassinated...
...only rancor that arose among officials involved in the two trials concerned who would pay. Uncle Sam picks up the federal bills, of course; no one would speculate on how much they will be, though one FBI agent notes that the cost of the investigations alone was certainly more than the $1.6 million commandeered in the Brink's heist. A battle is brewing, however, between Rockland County, where the crime occurred, and Orange County, where the trial was moved in a change of venue because of prejudicial pretrial publicity. Massive security has been necessary from the beginning, and Orange...
...that they will menace anyone who tries to stop them. In April 1982, France was reviled by the Turkish government for allegedly sanctioning the Armenian cause and for tolerating more than 40 attacks against Turks in the space of eight years. Now the French are not safe from Armenian rancor either. After Parisian authorities arrested Armenians suspected of being responsible for the Orly bombing, ASALA threatened to "spill more blood" unless the captives were released. Given the terrorists' record, there was every reason to believe that past grievances would continue to generate future casualties...
Nonetheless, Shultz was confronted with an uncommon degree of rancor among State Department officials after word came that Enders, an architect of U.S. policy toward Central America, was about to be shuffled off as Ambassador to Madrid. Professional diplomats at State became increasingly outraged over a steady stream of anonymous denigrating comments about Enders that emerged from the White House. Among the accusations: that, contrary to White House policy, Enders favored conciliatory negotiations with the guerrillas in El Salvador; that he insisted excessively on the importance of emphasizing economic as well as military aid to El Salvador in President Reagan...