Word: strife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if Timilty is not victorious in the mayoral race, he may put a crimp in White's plans for 1975. A landslide victory by the mayor in a city torn by racial strife would considerably improve his chances of realizing his national political aspirations. Kevin White, a near vice-presidential nominee in 1972, recognizes the value of such a victory; but a determined Joe Timilty may keep it beyond his grasp...
Christian Officers. The latest fighting had particularly ominous political overtones. Tripoli is the home town and political base of Premier Rashid Karami, a Sunni Moslem. Since midsummer, Karami has headed a "rescue government" whose first priority is to end the religious strife that has paralyzed the nation. Zgharta is the home village of Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh, a Maronite Christian and longtime political foe of Karami's. Indeed, the gunman alleged to have executed the Moslem bus riders is a distant relative of the President's.* Thus forces loyal to Lebanon's two highest officials were locked...
...fact that Peking's tightly controlled press is discussing these troubles so candidly does not mean that the country has plunged into a new period of strife. But it does indicate the government's deep concern with a persistent problem in China: political factionalism...
...into line following a takeover by the Communist-dominated printers' union, backed by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. Since then, though, several newspapers have openly irritated the government by publishing contentious statements from Portugal's rival military factions and ignoring official requests to play down the renewed strife in the Portuguese colony of Angola...
...call this civil strife anymore," said one Portuguese official in Luanda last week. "This is war." The latest and bitterest round of bloodletting between rival liberation groups had, in fact, left the Angolan capital a shambles. As thousands of whites sought to get out of the country, entire families crowded into the airport, waiting for any available flight out. Thousands of others, mostly blacks, jammed into the downtown section of the city in an effort to escape the fighting in outlying muceques (slums). After two hospitals closed down for lack of staff, medical teams were simply unable to cope...