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...undisguised presidential ambitions make them uneasy. They are aware that they would not have gained power had it not been for Enrile's defiance of Marcos, but there is resentment, even fear, of the influence the Defense Minister may exert, particularly if the coalition proves to be fractious. Sensitive to the criticism, the Harvard-educated Enrile went out of his way last week to underscore his commitment to the new government. "Do you think we would have laid down our lives for a corrupt purpose?" he said. "If these (doubters) will give me time to show them what kind...
...ranked as the worst year for aviation fatalities. The total (excluding the Soviet Union, which does not report its air accidents): 1,948, far beyond the previous 1974 record of 1,299. The disaster was also the second to strike American troops assigned to peacekeeping roles in the fractious Middle East. On Oct. 23, 1983, a terrorist's suicidal truck-bomb attack on a Marine headquarters in Beirut killed 241 servicemen. Though a Lebanon-based terror group, Islamic Jihad, claimed it had caused the latest crash with a bomb, Canadian officials quickly discouraged speculation that sabotage may have been involved...
...label also released VU, some unfinished basement tapes, lost but not forgotten during the fragmented and fractious end of the Velvets' career. In fact, for the first time ever, the Velvet Underground had a Hot Hundred album...
...power now taking place, the most serious challenge has come from Lebanon's Shi'ites, who constitute some 40% of the population but have long been relegated to second-class citizenship. In the process of winning an enhanced status, however, the Shi'ites have become a dangerously radicalized and fractious lot. The outcome of the internecine disputes within this branch of Islam could have a profound effect on the larger struggle for political control in Lebanon and on the outcome of the current hostage crisis...
...Iranian leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, continues to insist that hostilities will not end until the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has fallen. Some of Khomeini's domestic enemies maintain that another reason for the Ayatullah's inflexibility is that he needs the gulf war to hold his increasingly fractious country together...