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...main man for the liberal faction remains Ted Kennedy. Already his people are suggesting that the Bay State Senator may have "undone Chappaquiddick" with his fiery speech Tuesday night. Probably not, but he did set lie to the notion that he cannot lead. More importantly, he managed to unite the entire left--from Harrington to Dellums, to Fraser--behind him with his appeal to the issues, a unity demonstrated the next night when nearly every delegate pledged to Kennedy voted for him despite his withdrawal from the race. As he was finishing his speech, one delegate unfurled a banner reading...
...Weatherman faction took its name from a line in a Bob Dylan song: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Cathy Wilkerson seemed oblivious last week to the lesson of another Dylan song: "The times they are a-changin...
...assured his rivals that the Phalangists would not retaliate for the fighting. He even stayed for lunch and a swim. The very next morning, however, Chamoun's followers were attacked by 800 Phalangist troops under the leadership of Amin Gemayel's younger brother Bashir, head of his faction's "war council." The savage fighting ended two days later after Chamoun ordered his badly outnumbered followers to evacuate their offices and barracks. The estimated casualties on both sides: 100 dead and 300 wounded...
...some observers, the militia leaders appear to have the morals of Mafia dons. The Phalangists' sneak attack was reminiscent of a raid they made in June 1978 on still another Christian faction, the one led by former Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh. In that attack, Franjieh's eldest son Tony, as well as Tony's wife and infant daughter, was slain by Phalangist gunmen. In their assault on the National Liberals last week, the Phalangists seized and burned the home of Dany Chamoun, the son of the party leader and the commander of the group's militia...
...result, virtually every segment of society, every philosophical faction and special-interest group, had something to cheer about, and perhaps to jeer about as well. Antiabortion campaigners were rewarded with a politically touchy decision that will nearly eliminate Medicaid-financed abortions. Civil rights activists were pleased by the court's approval of a federal public works program setting aside 10% of funds for minority-run businesses, but dismayed by a decision that perpetuated a white-dominated electoral system in Mobile, Ala. Free-speech champions got more than they had hoped for in a ruling guaranteeing open criminal trials...