Word: strife-ridden
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Years before full-scale U.S. involve ment in the war, and long before USAID-supported programs for civilian pacification got under way, some Americans were hard at work in South Viet Nam helping strife-ridden citizens. Few have worked harder against greater odds than Seattle-born Dr. Patricia Marie Smith, 40, who has been in the central highland province of Kontum since 1959, first helping in a leprosarium, then running her own makeshift clinic, now operating a 40-bed hospital...
...West. Howard insists that the movement adheres faithfully to Buchman's grand strategy-converting the world's leaders to living by the four absolutes. The movement no longer flaunts the easily refuted claims of a decade ago that labor union converts had brought industrial peace to strife-ridden cities. And M.R.A. these days soft-pedals endorsements from African leaders maintaining that the movement has saved the continent from chaos...
...Security Council last week finally agreed on a peace-keeping force for the strife-ridden island of Cyprus. But someone must have forgotten to tell the Cypriots, for guns were blazing and men dying in the magnificent green hills rising above the seaport of Kyrenia. There the slopes are dotted with villages that are alternately Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot. At the top, Turkish Cypriots hold the medieval castle of St. Hilarion. "The Greeks are besieging us, but we have enough food and ammunition to last more than a month," said an angry Turkish Cypriot student. A Greek Cypriot leader...
Instead, for more than 1,500 years, a strife-ridden but never-quite-failing balance was maintained among China, India, the Roman-European West, and at the pivot point-the Middle East. All four had cultural traditions of their own; but technologies, crops, philosophies, military methods and art forms were traded back and forth, along with epidemic disease. Invasions of horse-riding nomads from the steppes were another recurring plague; but even the greatest barbarian onslaught, the Mongol explosion of the 13th century, was finally fought off or absorbed...
...uneasy stirrings of Afro-Asian self-determination cast a harsh glare on the turgid cataract of independence and democracy, per se, as they sink their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser...