Word: factionalized
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...hills above Beirut, American warships grew more active in supporting the Lebanese government's beleaguered forces (see WORLD). Both Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz accused the Soviets of being involved in Syria's largely successful attempts to frustrate international peace-keeping efforts in the faction-torn nation. Said a White House official: "We've seen a significantly increased likelihood of a U.S.-Soviet military confrontation in the Middle East. We are watching the situation carefully...
...Mitterrand last week ordered retaliation against attacks on the French troops. In Britain, the opposition Labor Party is grumbling that the MNF should be used strictly for peace keeping rather than to keep Gemayel in power, although the angriest words on the subject have come from a nationalistic faction of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. Still, like the Reagan Administration, the French, Italian and British governments express determination to maintain their forces in Lebanon as long as they are needed. -By George J. Church. Reported by Roberto Suro/Beirut
DIED. Qiao Guanhua, 70, Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China from 1974-76 who played a crucial role in improving his country's relations with the U.S. before he was dismissed from office for his alleged connections with the purged radical faction, the Gang of Four; of lung cancer; in Peking. A worldly, seasoned diplomat and close ally of the late Premier Chou Enlai, Guanhua, was known for his wide-ranging intelligence and acerbic wit. Because of his ties with Mao Tse-tung's widow, Gang of Four Leader Jiang Qing, Guanhua became...
...airport, and at other villages in the Aley area, as Druze forces stepped up their efforts to drive the Lebanese Army out of the hills. Resisting the Druze pressure, the Gemayel government insisted that the Druze forces were being heavily reinforced by troops from Syria and a rebel faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Many Lebanese, especially the Christians, have long been fearful that somehow the Palestinian guerrillas, in one guise or another, would find a way to slip back into West Beirut, and suddenly they appeared to be attempting to do exactly that...
...there have been few serious confrontations, but the fear lingers that at some point emotions could boil over. Two years ago, Red Army Faction terrorists fired an antitank grenade at a car carrying General Frederick Kroesen, then Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. "Some of these people will do anything," says a Frankfurt-based soldier. "It takes only one bomb attack for you and your wife to be afraid for months...