Word: disarrayed
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East scenarios was unfolding. The Arab world was already in disarray over Israel's invasion of Lebanon seven weeks ago in an attempt to dislodge the Palestine Liberation Organization. With no end to the siege of West Beirut in sight (see following story), another non-Arab country, Iran, had invaded Arab territory and seemed, moreover, to have a better-than-even chance of unseating the ruling government. At immediate risk were the moderate, hereditary regimes of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the gulf. But the Ayatullah Khomeini's vow was even more explosive: to press on to Jerusalem...
Anderson, Rashish, Hormats, Ture, Roberts, Jordan. One after another, Ronald Reagan's economic advisers have been emptying out their desks and leaving. Some have left for personal reasons, and others over substantive disputes. But the overall effect has been to underscore an impression of disarray within the Administration's top economic ranks...
...Argentina's troops return, the junta is in disarray...
...congressional vote. "The members perceived that this could be it," said Mississippi Republican Trent Lott. "There was a feeling that we had to pass a budget today." Added Liberal Democrat James Shannon of Massachusetts: "We were more scared of looking like we were in disarray than anything else...
Begin and other right-wing Israeli leaders seem willing to pay that price. Their fears a of maniacal Palestinian state blind them to the political instability and moral disarray that 15 years of occupation have brought to Israel. Perhaps they prefer Israel's steady transformation into a paranoid garrison state, at peace with neither its neighbors nor itself. Or perhaps they really believe that the Palestine's problem can be managed by an "autonomy" scheme worked out with Egypt...