Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headlines that hit newsstands. PARIS PANIC! screamed Le Matin. PARIS-BEIRUT, read Le Parisien Libere. Over the next few days the parallel with the Middle East nightmare was eerily driven home as militant Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims fired on French peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon, and Colonel Christian Goutierre, 54, the French military attache in Beirut, was gunned down. Responsibility for the assassination was claimed by the Revenge and Justice Front, a group that has no known links to the C.S.P.P.A...
...defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, "but Honduras has no independent foreign policy anymore. We have displaced people on our own territory, a permanent conflict with Nicaragua, and we are isolated internationally. I see an escalation of the war, and I do not know where it will stop...
...press also came under attack as part of the state of siege. Six magazines were closed down indefinitely, including Hoy, the journal of the centrist Christian Democratic Party. The London-based Reuters wire service had to close its operations in Santiago after transmitting a profile of Pinochet that referred to the President as an "archvillain." The Italian news agency ANSA was also shut down for disseminating what the government called "tendentious and false information that has offended the armed forces...
Garang, a Christian member of the Dinka tribe, vows that in spite of the human cost, they will continue fighting until the government of recently elected Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi stops trying to impose Islamic customs upon the Christians and pagans of the south. "Religion must no longer be used for political aims," Garang, 41, told TIME last week in his first interview with a major U.S. publication inside southern Sudan. "Anyone can see that Sudan is disintegrating. There is no government by the people, for the people. A new Sudan must be born...
Although he took part in the earlier separatist struggle, Garang is eager now to renounce any hint of a secessionist program. "We are not a Christian movement," he stresses. "We are not an African movement. We are a Sudanese movement. We cannot for a moment entertain sectarianism based on religion, on race or on tribe, because it is precisely such sectarianism that has blackened Sudan for 30 years. We are a unionist movement dedicated to the creation of a united new Sudan that uses its resources for the people and does not fight within itself...