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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such sermons have galvanized the discontented in a country mired in political and economic chaos. Earlier this year, members of the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front issued a manifesto of civil disobedience and occupied sections of Algiers to protest electoral laws that they claimed were devised to deny them victory in parliamentary elections originally scheduled for June. After some 100 people died in street fighting between the army and demonstrators, balloting was postponed and President Chadli Bendjedid declared a state of siege to restore calm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria : Searching for Salvation | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...Lebanese towns, home to both ancient beauty and modern terror. Dominating the landscape are the magnificent, 2,000-year- old ruins of three Roman temples, their stone pillars rising high above the Bekaa Valley. Since 1983, Baalbek has also been under the control of the Shi'ite Muslim fundamentalist group known as Hizballah (Party of God), whose members claim allegiance to Iran. Operating under several different names, Hizballah is believed to have plotted the 1983 bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut that killed 241 Americans. Since 1982, groups tied to Hizballah have kidnapped more than 30 Westerners in Lebanon, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep In Kidnapper Country | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...fundamentalist Shi'ites will not give up their capital without a struggle. When 20,000 people, mostly schoolchildren, gathered in the ruins for a Peace Day sponsored by the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism in June, Hizballah fired its antiaircraft artillery and the celebration ended in panic. The ruins had been transformed, complained Hizballah in a communique, "into a market where women show their flesh and where obscene proposals are exchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep In Kidnapper Country | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

That leaves the bargaining power of Islamic Jihad weakened at a time when the organization is finding itself increasingly politically isolated. McCarthy's and Tracy's release may have been a desperate attempt to remind an inattentive international audience of the fundamentalists' agenda. But as the Leyraud abduction demonstrated, that agenda is fragmented and riddled by competing demands. Islamic Jihad may also have acted in hopes of preventing a Syrian disarming of fundamentalist camps in Lebanon and of gaining new respect from disaffected Shi'ites. Says Richard Murphy, former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Game of Chances | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

SECULAR SOUNDS. Fearing a Fundamentalist backlash, Columbia changed the title of Nick Lowe's 1978 Jesus of Cool album to Pure Pop for Now People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock-'N'-Roll Cover-Up | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

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