Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brawl Aftermath...
Politically, the fallout from Israel's ouster would have endangered both the Arab and the Palestinian cause. In the aftermath of all-out war in Lebanon and the massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, the Arabs are riding a wave of sympathy the world over. But the new-found perception of Israel as a Goliath surrounded by poor little David's would likely have shifted had the Jewish state been bullied...
...worst fears of the P.L.O. have come true. Palestinian refugees cannot depend on the ill-equipped and ill-trained Lebanese army for protection. In the aftermath of the P.L.O.'s departure from Beirut, the world has a moral obligation to protect the Palestinians who still remain there...
...PACs. The National Conservative PAC (NCPAC), known as "Nickpac," mounted a series of harsh negative advertising campaigns in 1980 that it insists were responsible for defeating Democratic Senators George McGovern of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho, Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. In the heady aftermath, NCPAC grandly announced that it planned to shoot down 20 more liberal Senators in 1982. But NCPAC's aim has proved less deadly than thought, and its guns are beginning to backfire. NCPAC is now heavily involved in only five Senate races, and its preferred candidates are generally disavowing...
Qaboos feels that his own standing in the Arab world may be somewhat strengthened in the aftermath of the Lebanon crisis, if the U.S. can eventually persuade Israel to compromise. He says: "Some of those who used to talk about so-called Arab solidarity were completely against anyone who supported Egypt and who remained friends with the U.S. Now that kind of talk has been dissolved, except perhaps in the imagination of the Libyans. People who hoped that the more radical Arab states would fight Israel and stand behind the Palestinians, discrediting the moderate Arabs, have seen their hopes come...