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Word: hizballah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lebanese kidnappers still hold 13 hostages, six of them American. Though the whereabouts of the captives are unknown, rumors often place them in Baalbek or surrounding villages. Yet at the moment, Hizballah's grip on Baalbek is < threatened by the advent of peace. Lebanon's 15-year civil war ended last October, when Syrian troops ousted General Michel Aoun, the renegade Christian leader, from his power base in Beirut. Over the past few months, thousands of Lebanese tourists have begun to return to Baalbek, and both their dress and behavior are anathema to Islamic fundamentalists...

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

...Slowly, Hizballah is losing its influence over daily life. The Iranian flag still flies from the watchtowers of the former Lebanese Army base, but its red, green and white stripes have faded to a uniform pastel. Many of the hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guards who lived inside the barracks have reportedly left. Many women used to wear chadors, but now relatively few do; over the past 18 months, the Iranians stopped paying them to wear the long black veils...

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 »

Hussein Musawi, 48, leader of the Islamic Amal wing of Hizballah and the most powerful man in the city of 150,000, smiles when the communique is mentioned. "The young men who wrote this are a little hotheaded," he says. "We advised them to exercise moderation. The ruins are ours. Why would a man bury himself in his own house...

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

...campaign of intimidation has continued. In mid-July a grenade exploded in one of the Roman temples, again routing the tourists. When three buses from the Christian coastal town of Jounieh arrived during the Muslim feast of Ashura last month, Hizballah followers blocked the road and told the visitors to leave on the grounds that the Muslims were mourning the martyred 7th century Imam Hussein...

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

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