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...YEAR AGO last may five American correspondents in Lebanon were abducted by a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and held for 24 hours. According several accounts, the newsmen were stripped and lined up against a wall as if to be executed. Them they were released on the condition their employers not reveal the episode. Only an accusatory finger pointed by the Israeli Press Office eight months later forced the American media to disclose the affair...
This pacifist faction within the church has drawn the ire of many conservative Catholic intellectuals (see box). "Some of the bishops are extremely cavalier," says Church Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University. "They seem to say there is no real problem with the Soviets. And some of them have fallen into the habit of saying that a nuclear holocaust would be the greatest of all evils. Yet in religious terms, physical destruction, no matter how horrible, can never be the worst evil. It makes me shiver when it is implied that we should allow ourselves if necessary...
...considered to have the best chance of succeeding Suzuki is Yasuhiro Nakasone, 64, former head of the Defense Agency and present director general of the Administrative Management Agency. Two weeks ago Nakasone publicly committed his faction of the party to support Suzuki's reelection. Japanese observers speculate that Nakasone knew in advance that Suzuki was resigning and announced his support mainly to help win the blessing of Suzuki's major backer, former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...
...Boston politics, "the press" usually means the Boston Globe. And whether they have consciously sought it or not, the Globe newswriters have become as much a political force as any candidate or faction. They are often accused of being liberal Democrats in general, and unabashed Dukakis supporters in particular. On primary election night in 1978, when Edward J. King came from however to vanquish then-Gov. Dukakis, supporters chants of "We beat the Duke!" soon blurred into "We beat the Globe!" In this year's long gubernatorial campaign, the paper has the dubious and perhaps unprecedented distinction of drawing libel...
...President-elect's father Pierre Gemayel was the founder and original leader of the Phalangist Party, a hardline, fervently nationalistic faction of the country's large Maronite Christian community. The youngest of six children, Bashir Gemayel enthusiastically embraced his father's conservative ideology, which was inspired by the nationalist movements of Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini...