Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spiritual leader of Iran's revolution might indeed be feeling some strain. Even as he basked in the adulation of the mobs at Qum, armed Azerbaijani militants loyal to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari were battling Khomeini's followers and Revolutionary Guards in the streets of Tabriz. Last week's outburst, the latest clash in a simmering Azerbaijani rebellion against the central government, left at least six dead and 100 wounded before Tabriz was brought under control by local police, army troops and Revolutionary Guards...
...Soviet action has imposed a severe strain on detente. It has magnified the competitive aspect of the relationship, and it has very negatively affected the cooperative aspects. Detente has certainly been very severely injured...
Vardaman thus closed the year with 698 sightings. He had spent 170 days and logged 161,331 miles: 137,145 by plane, 20,305 by auto, 3,337 by boat, 384 on foot and 160 on bicycle. His odyssey cost $35,000 and put a strain on his marriage. "I would have sold him for a dime," says his wife Virginia, "when he went off to Alaska and left me for weeks with the kids...
...SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union?more modest in scope than many Americans had urged, but basically useful to the U.S.?led to congressional wrangling that raised doubts about whether the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty will even be ratified in 1980. The SALT debate put a substantial strain on U.S.-Soviet relations, which were deteriorating for lots of other reasons as well...
...visitors which football teams were in the professional playoffs and college bowl games. They were prohibited from talking about politics, but one nonetheless inquired: "Is Teddy Kennedy running for President?" A few muttered defiant wisecracks about their captors, but others, particularly some of the younger ones, seemed under considerable strain. When the brief encounters were over, a few sobbed as they embraced the visitors and then headed back to the cubicles in which they have been held for eight weeks. All the while, thousands of young Iranians stood outside in the first snow of the season, chanting the familiar slogans...