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Special Position. Though the fighting appeared to taper off at week's end, few Lebanese believed that the paralyzing feud was finished. They feared, moreover, that the continuing battles might eventually destroy the special position of Lebanon in the Middle East, in which it has managed to avoid the bloodshed of wars with Israel and at the same time build up a profitable business with the world around it. At the core of the problem is the country's outdated government structure, which was designed in a poly-religious society to be fair to all by allotting posts...
...blood. Other efforts included the hypnotizing of people who had talked to Hoffa shortly before he disappeared, in the hope of coaxing some leads from their memories of the recent conversations. Within Hoffa's family, which posted a $200,000 reward for his return, a bitter feud developed as one member sharply accused another of knowing more about the affair than he was saying...
...bellwether of his government's intentions. Lately, Saddam Hussein has begun to travel more and more outside his country. Two months ago during a dramatic summit of oil producers in Algiers, he and Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi embraced and agreed to end a long-running feud between their neighboring nations. Two weeks ago, Saddam Hussein was given a warm welcome by the Shah in Tehran, where until recently Iranian commentators had often referred to him as "the Baathist butcher." Last week he flew on to Bulgaria and Hungary for political and economic talks...
...particular are quite hostile to the Communists," observes Harvard Asian Scholar Alexander Woodside. "The Hoa Hao view Marxism as a Western creed, and they view themselves as standing for the residual culture of old Viet Nam. There has been a virtual blood feud between them and the Communists...
Fortunately, the UK-UL feud fought out in fantasies and endless speculations rather than in the hardwood since 1959, the last time the two met (with UL the easy winner) will resolve itself quickly after Saturday's semis...