Word: rift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chain of army mutinies that rocked East Africa like an earthquake had its epicenter in Zanzibar, where bloody revolution sent shock waves rumbling up and down the Great Rift. Before the aftershocks subsided, the British Commonwealth governments of Tanganyika, Uganda and Kenya had been severely shaken...
...accompanying directive establishing voluntary programs to help men correct mental and physical deficiencies, provide some hope that the Administration is beginning to think constructively about the whole draft system. The Pentagon's new study of manpower needs also indicates fresh attention to a program that is rift with inequities and inconsistencies and very possibly inappropriate to the current needs of the country...
...West." U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while warning that the Communists could create new dangers with unpredictable and perilous speed, hinted that the array of problems facing Russia may make it far easier for the West to reach agreements with the Reds. The problems include the deeply significant rift with Red China, the slackening of revolutionary ardor at home, and the Soviet Union's growing domestic economic troubles...
...blast may well open a new rift between Moscow and Peking, even though the Kremlin has been relatively restrained in recent weeks. For as Khrushchev once asserted: "There is much in Christ that is common with us Communists. But I cannot agree with him when he says that when you are hit on the right cheek, turn the left cheek. If I am hit on the left cheek, I hit back on the right cheek so hard that his head might fall...
...delivering atomic bombs (probably 60 kilotons each). While to hardheaded U.S. military men the name of the bombers summarizes the whole project, to De Gaulle it is the beginning of his independent force de frappe, and as such a modest guarantee of an independent course for France. The rift between the U.S. and De Gaulle over the shape of the Western Alliance has never been wider. When French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Nurville conferred with President Kennedy last week, paving the way for a De Gaulle visit to the U.S. next year, the difference of their opinions made...