Word: favor
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...majority of prayer advocates, of course, would be horrified by such tactics. It is their freedom to pray, they insist, that has been taken away by a zealous cadre of secularists, and they are only trying to reclaim it, without coercing anyone. Polls have consistently shown heavy majorities in favor of school prayer; Gallup reported last September that 81% of respondents who had followed the issue supported an amendment that would permit "voluntary" prayer, vs. only 14% opposed. Says Dan Alexander, president of a Mobile, Ala., organization called Save Our Schools: "We've allowed a small, very vocal minority...
...slaughter of Iraqi prisoners by the Iranians?" demanded Defense Minister Adnan Khairallah. He pointed out that the U.S. had been "the only state to use nuclear weapons" and had done so on the "pretext of limiting the period of war." He accused the U.S. of trying to curry favor with Iran and blamed the whole controversy on "some Zionist adviser" in Washington who was trying to incite "anti-Iraqi or anti-Arab sentiments." Saddam Hussein also accused the U.S. of hypocrisy, saying that Washington's policy was based on "selfish national interest at the expense of truth, honor...
Gemayel's chief military opponents, Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt and Nabih Berri, the head of the Shi'ite Amal militia, plan to seek a new electoral system for Lebanon's moribund 99-member parliament, involving nationwide proportional representation. If accepted, the arrangement would strongly favor the country's Muslims, who make up 50% to 60% of the Lebanese population. In addition, Jumblatt and Berri are determined to end the longstanding Christian Maronite domination of the upper reaches of the Lebanese civil service and army...
Reacting to those anticipated changes, a growing number of Maronites favor the outright division of Lebanon into religious and political enclaves. A spokesman for the Christians' powerful Lebanese Forces militia went so far last week as to threaten to ignore the results of the Lausanne meeting if they were deemed unsatisfactory. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, another kind of territorial split for Lebanon was under consideration. By the terms of the May 17 agreement, Israel was bound to withdraw its 22,000 troops from southern Lebanon provided that Syria, with 62,000 troops on Lebanese soil, did likewise. Now the Israeli...
...crime in the nation is now related to drugs. More than 4,500 addicts are in prison, and last year 1,000 soldiers were dismissed from the Malaysian army for drug involvement. In neighboring Thailand, long permissive in matters of vice, some leading authorities now favor stringent antidrug laws and compulsory rehabilitation. In India, new users range from drivers of Delhi's scooter taxis to affluent businessmen who view a quick fix as the fashionable thing...