Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moawad's election was a crucial step in a peace attempt brokered last month by the Arab League. The goal was to restore stability by giving Lebanon's Muslim majority greater powers in parliament and the Cabinet while reducing those of the Christian President. Under a new constitution, the President...
Though that progress was slight, the bombers were evidently determined to destroy it. Many Lebanese speculated that General Michel Aoun, the bitterest foe of the Arab League peace plan and the commander of fanatically loyal Christian forces in East Beirut, was behind the killing. Aoun has been outraged that the...
Despite the courage of Lebanon's parliamentarians, the fear in Beirut, spawning an exodus of thousands, is that Aoun's soldiers might clash with Syrian troops. A Syrian-supported attack on Aoun's stronghold is likely if, after a face-saving interval, the general does not accept the new government...
From the election of a Solidarity government in Poland to the opening of the Berlin Wall to the announced end of Communist monopoly rule in Czechloslovakia, the East is entering uncharted waters, and the West wants to know what it all means--immediately.
Throughout the campaign, Gandhi portrayed the election as a choice between stability under his government and potential chaos under the opposition.