Word: rift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some time the Studentbond has attacked NUSAS as "liberalist, integrationist, and treasonable." Although NUSAS has tried to increase contact between Afrikaans and English students, all its approaches have been rudely turned down; the rift between the two organizations is now wider than ever...
...Timed Rift. For a time, with typical Mideastern ambiguity, the Baathists had tried to avoid openly attacking Nasser. After crushing the July 18 uprising of pro-Nasser army officers. Syria cautiously avoided publicly blaming Nasser. Even while executing 27 Nasserite rebels, the Syrian leaders still said they wanted to forget the past and intended to keep on working for union. But last week, faced with Nasser's blast, they finally insisted on their innocence and Nasser's guilt in killing hopes of Arab unity...
...rift comes at a bad time for Nasser, who has a 28,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force-at the far end of a long supply line-bogged down in a nasty little desert war with the royalists of Yemen. But the two Baath nations are having worse troubles. Iraq is deeply committed to wiping out the Kurdish rebellion in its northern provinces, and it is becoming clear that the Kurdish war is not going well. Syria is rolling downhill economically at an appalling speed, and though its Baathist regime has survived two Nasserite revolts, it may crumple before a third...
...from among early arrivals: Rumanian Red Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is not only feuding with Moscow over economic planning but is warm toward Peking, allowed its manifesto to appear in the Rumanian press. What confronted the small-scale Red summit meeting was the picture of the Sino-Soviet rift tearing into the Communist fabric all over the world...
...part it stems from the bruises of history. The rise of Islam destroyed thousands of thriving Christian communities in the Near East, and turned surviving churches into conservative, defensive ghettos that held to the faith through periodic persecutions and dreamed of the lost grandeur that was Greece. The gradual rift between Rome and the churches of the East-made final in 1054 when a huffy papal legate excommunicated the Patriarch of Con stantinople-cut Orthodoxy off from the intellectual revolution that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the last 46 years, Communism has turned...