Word: clericalization
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BEIRUT, Lebanon--Lebanon's top Shiite Muslim cleric said yesterday that a Western hostage would be released in weeks, but urged a one-time swap involving the captives and Arab prisoners to end the crisis...
...immediate, angry reaction in the Arab world highlighted the deep rifts that exist among kidnapping clans inside Lebanon. Hours before Leyraud disappeared, Lebanon's most influential Shi'ite cleric, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, renewed his persistent calls for a freeing of all foreign hostages. In successive interviews with British and American journalists, Fadlallah insisted that "the ploys of hostage dealing have been exhausted" and that even Iranian hard-liners "desire an end to the whole problem...
...much Western-style razzle-dazzle, given a severe paper shortage and the miserly sum of 200,000 rubles that authorities have granted each candidate. The closest thing to television ads was endorsements tucked away in evening news reports. The Russian news show, Vesti, for example, showed a Muslim cleric from the North Caucasus announcing that his people were "praying to the Almighty" for a Yeltsin victory...
...defectors from the regular army, angered that their leaders had brought them such inglorious defeat, faced 6,000 loyalists from the Republican Guard. The rabble-rousers also included a large number of Shi'ite fundamentalists, some of whom paraded portraits of Mohammed Bakr Hakim, Iraq's leading Shi'ite cleric. Hakim lives in exile in Iran and aims to install a Tehran-like revolutionary government in Baghdad; Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani last week called on Saddam's regime to "surrender to the will of the people." Hakim cheered the insurrection but denied assertions that he had orchestrated...
Medieval France, a cleric boasted, was covered with a "white mantle" of churches. So is America, with museums. Nobody can say for sure which museum is the worst. But now we know which is the vainest. It opened in Los Angeles last November. It is the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. It cost nearly $100 million -- paid for, to their now deep resentment, by the shareholders of Occidental Petroleum Corp., whose chairman Dr. Hammer...