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...people, including 17 Americans. One of the groups claiming responsibility for that action was the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made up of Shi'ite Muslims loyal to Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. On Sunday evening the State Department received an unconfirmed report that a faction calling itself the Islamic Revolutionary Movement had taken responsibility for the terrorist attacks. An unidentified caller had apparently phoned the Beirut office of the French news service Agence France-Presse to say that two of the movement's fighters had died in the suicide attacks...
...Hizbolla, which means Party of God, is a rival to the Amal faction, the largest Shi'ite group in Lebanon. It receives guns, ammunition and money from the Iranian revolutionary guards operating in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley and from the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which sees it as a vehicle for extending Khomeini's influence in Lebanon. The Hizbolla is widely assumed to have been behind the U.S. embassy bombing, but neither Lebanese nor U.S. authorities have been able to pin this down. A measure of the difficulty of identifying terrorists in Lebanon is that although two or three...
...firms to hide shady financial dealings. Two years later, an official probe led to the Lockheed bribery charges and Tanaka's subsequent arrest. Throughout his travails, however, Tanaka always retained his seat in the Diet, which he first won in 1947. More important, he still controls the largest faction within Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party; of the 422 L.D.P. members in the 763-seat Diet, 119 consider Tanaka their leader. He has played a pivotal role in choosing his three successors, including the current Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone. Tanaka's influence remains so pervasive that...
MISURA represents the Miskito, Sumo and Rama Indians of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast. The coalition and a second Indian faction, known as MISURASATA, have opposed efforts by the Sandinistas to turn communal Indian property into state holdings and to relocate entire villages. Says MISURA Leader Steadman Fagoth Mullen "We want to be left alone." The group draws recruits from among the 13,500 Indians living across the border in Honduran refugee camps, but, according to Fagoth, his insurgents are so ill-equipped that they must go into battle with as little as 30 rounds of ammunition...
...began with a mistake: Senator Ted Kennedy, 51, was mailed a recruiting letter by the Moral Majority, the 4 million-member right-wing faction headed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, 50, his archfoe. When word of the embarrassing gaffe leaked out, the organization good-naturedly invited the Massachusetts liberal to speak at Liberty Baptist College, the group's education stronghold in Lynchburg, Va. Although Kennedy got along well personally with Falwell, he strongly challenged the views of his hosts in an excellent speech (largely written by his press secretary, Robert Shrum). Said Kennedy: "The controversy about the Moral Majority...