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...moments of extreme crisis for the P.L.O., debate is sometimes suspended and democracy begins (or ends) at the barrel of a gun. During the recent mini war in southern Lebanon (TIME, Oct. 3), for example, Arafat's Fatah troops accepted a cease-fire designed to halt fighting between Palestinians and the Lebanese Christians. The P.F.L.P. refused and continued to lob shells toward Israel. Arafat solved the problem: he ordered his men to arrest 14 P.F.L.P officers until Habash agreed to the truce...
...back of my mind," Malkin said, "I felt I didn't really beiong there. I was really at the bottom of the barrel although I sure felt lucky enough to just make that barrel...
...Bottom of the Barrel...
...reason for the disparity is that many corporations have their headquarters in the Northeast and Midwest, from which they pay taxe based on their total national sales. But there are other factors, including the success of persuasive Southern and Western Congressmen in winning defense funds and pork-barrel projects for the folks back home...
...leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only be born out of the barrel...