Word: christian
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...sentenced to death on highly dubious charges of raping two white women-was retried there and led to four new convictions. Decatur peacefully integrated its schools and public facilities in the 1960s, but as soon as Hines was indicted in June, racial tension began rising. Demonstrators from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference appeared in front of the city hall and put up tents on the grass. Hines' arrest was "a setup," said the Rev. R.B. Cotton-reader, a leader of the S.C.L.C. "Decatur was being pressed for an arrest and conviction for those rapes." Then came the Ku Klux...
...become another Stalin-grad." So said a weary Lebanese Christian, preparing to abandon his beloved city of Beirut-perhaps forever. Once again the sectarian violence that has savaged Lebanon for the past five years had erupted in a round of destruction and death. In an all-out effort to crush right-wing Christian militiamen with whom it has been fighting a months-long war, the 30,000-man Syrian peace-keeping force launched a devastating block-by-block assault on Christian areas of Beirut. By week's end it had left at least 800 dead and thousands more wounded...
...battle began on Sept. 30, when a 50-man Syrian patrol was pinned down by snipers in Christian-dominated East Beirut. In an effort to free the trapped patrol, Syrian artillery units let loose the heaviest barrages seen in the city since the Lebanese civil war came to an official end two years ago. "Never in the uninterrupted years of war since 1973 has there been such bitter fighting as in the past week," reported TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis from Beirut. "Throughout the eastern part of the city there is a continuous barrage of exploding shells and rockets. The road...
...statistics of destruction were appalling. More than 35,000 houses were demolished in the shelling, which soon spread from the city to the hills north of Beirut. The U.S. Embassy was hit by shells, and two Marine guards were wounded. Some two-thirds of the 600,000 Christian residents fled, leaving behind thousands of others cowering in the basements of wrecked buildings without food, water, electricity or communications with the outside world. Unable to minister to the wounded, hospitals turned into morgues, reeking with the stench of decomposing bodies. Said a shaken President Elias Sarkis, in a terse summation...
East Germany, West Germany and Eurocommunism, Peter Christian Ludz, Munich Univ., rm. 4, 1737 Cambridge...