Word: christian
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Fighting also broke out between Christian militiamen and the Lebanese Army near the port city of Sidon. By midweek, hundreds of Muslim residents of predominantly Christian villages had fled to Sidon. In the Beirut area, Islamic fundamentalists kidnaped a French diplomat, and two other employees of the French embassy were presumed to have been abducted, bringing to six the number of Westerners who have disappeared in the capital in the past two weeks. A telephone caller to Western news agencies in Beirut claimed that the radical group Islamic Holy War was holding the three...
...Christian side, the standoff continued between President Amin Gemayel, who is a Maronite Christian, and the Christian officers who have seized control of the combined militias long dominated by the Gemayel family. From the beginning of the revolt two weeks ago, the rebels' anger is believed to have been directed at Gemayel for transferring his loyalty from Israel to Syria. The rebels insisted last week that they thought Gemayel was too autocratic in presuming to be both leader of the Christian community and President of Lebanon. They proposed the creation of a special council that would serve as a parliament...
...country may be falling apart, but the relative positions of the occupying powers, Israel and Syria, probably remain about the same. In the south, the Israelis are continuing their painful withdrawal, while the Syrians are profiting from the activities of the Shi'ite militants. In the Christian north, a pro-Israeli faction is posing a threat. If the situation there gets any worse, the Syrians may feel obliged to rescue the Gemayel government by military means, thereby angering Syria's Lebanese Muslim allies and setting the stage for still another round of political and sectarian violence...
...poorest state, Oskar Lafontaine, 41, a shrewd and charismatic leftist, led the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to an absolute majority in a state assembly that had been dominated by conservatives for three decades. By contrast, in West Berlin, long a stronghold of the SPD, the ^ winner was a conservative, Christian Democratic Mayor Eberhard Diepgen, 43. Two elements common to both votes were the resurgence of the center-right Free Democrats, thought to be in danger of extinction as a party just a few weeks ago, and the poor showing of the anti-Establishment Greens and their allies, whose cause...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl conceded that the setback for his Christian Democrats in the economically depressed Saarland was "very painful." Privately, he ascribed it to the tireless zest of Lafontaine, who represents an emerging group of left-wing Social Democrats who are calling for their country's withdrawal from NATO's military structure and an end to U.S. missile deployment in West Germany...