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...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...
...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...
...Bald Mountain scene had terrified his child. Members of an organization called Dieters United objected to the tutu-clad hippos frolicking to the music of Dance of the Hours; the protesters felt the sequence ridiculed fat people. Conservationists were appalled at the waste of water in Sorcerer's Apprentice. Fundamentalist Christians bewailed ) the depiction of evolution in Rite of Spring. Antidrug forces suspected something subliminally prodrug in the Nutcracker Suite episode featuring dancing mushrooms. Only Fantasia conductor Leopold Stokowski escaped chastisement, perhaps because he is dead...
...multiplex cinema. Brimming with self-confidence, these congregations -- many of them independent of established Protestant denominations -- have an increasing edge in the competitive marketplace of U.S. religion and an inexorable attraction for choosy consumers. Superchurches represent many denominational labels or no label, but nearly all are Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Charismatic or Pentecostalist, preaching a conservative theology...
...Right Thing neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., goes all-out to recruit restless teenagers and has a 9,000-student Sunday school. While many of the fastest-growing congregations are young, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind., famous for its armada of Sunday-school buses, has been a Fundamentalist fixture for decades...