Word: schism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ally whose vicious administration of Angola has disgusted most of the world) that Portuguese politics are not entirely frozen. Salazar is 73, and when he dies sudden spurts of opposition will not vanish after November. NATO has refrained from trying to influence Salazar's regime because it fears a schism, yet the oddities of this election help to show that it may, paradoxically, be burning its own boats. The Alliance will not be able to cope with the unpredictability of the huge political vacuum after Salazar's death unless it attempts to affect the transition...
They had been called together by Athenagoras, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who (by a tradition that dates back to the schism of Christendom between Rome and Constantinople in 1054) is the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Modernminded Athenagoras, aware that Orthodoxy must begin to shuck its ancient animosities if it is to carry any weight in the world, had been working for a decade to organize the conference, and perhaps its most important achievement is that it was finally held...
...Days War" ended by June, when the Journal editors had had it, financially and academically, and the Crime emerged victorious but not unchanged. The presence of a vigorous competitor had forced the CRIMSON to become a far more modern and readable paper that it had been before the schism...
Grey Area. The reason for the widening schism between the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. is as old as the picket line: jurisdictional disputes. Faced with a decline in membership (from 15 million in 1958 to about 12½ million now), the increasing threat of automation, and long-term unemployment in organized industries, A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions have come to ignore their no-raiding pledges, compete bitterly with one another for membership. A major new "grey area" of conflict: factory maintenance. Although building tradesmen have always held a monopoly on industrial construction, C.I.O.-formed unions have traditionally carried out essential maintenance. Recently...
...which the West was forced into alliance with one monster (the Soviets) to beat another (fascism). As history, the Spanish War is barely a generation old; as an exemplary conflict, it is as contemporary as yesterday's Korea or today's Laos or the schism of the two Germanys...