Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condition of the P.L.O. in the wake of its expulsion from Beirut last year by Israeli forces, particularly the organization's susceptibility to pressure from Syria and several other hard-line Arab countries. Despite a tepid rapprochement between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, Syria appears to be intent on controlling the P.L.O. and will not hesitate to try to undermine Arafat's authority in the process...
Whatever the precise intent of the mutineers may have been, it is obvious that they were aiming at Arafat's primary constituency and the source of his authority. The extent of the damage they may have caused him is not yet known. But the fact that he felt obliged to go out and rally support is a sign that he was extremely worried. As a result, the P.L.O. leader will be under increased pressure to avoid any moves toward moderation of the kind that the U.S., Israel and Lebanon would welcome. -By William E. Smith. Reported by Harry Kelly/Jerusalem...
...Pretoria bombing was certain to stiffen white opposition to sharing power. Some South Africans even suspected that the attack might have been the work of an extreme right-wing group intent on sabotaging Prime Minister P.W. Botha's efforts to introduce constitutional reforms that would give limited voting rights to Asians and coloreds. Malan warned the nation to be on guard for more urban violence. Said he: "War does not start and finish at the country's borders...
...conflict. Says former National Security Council Member William Quandt, now a Brookings Institution fellow: "This does not appear to be the kind of deliberate buildup that we saw in anticipation of the 1973 war. But the danger is that it will be like 1967, when there was no real intent to go to war, but tensions rose and rose to the point where no one could find a way to back down." Declared State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg last week: "We have repeatedly noted that with Israeli and Syrian forces juxtaposed in a tense situation, there is the persistent threat...
...Intent on observing what he calls the "etiquette of the saga," he persuaded Lucas to tell him what happened to the characters before Star Wars began and demanded that Lucas always be available by phone, so that he could find out how a character should look or think in Lucas' universe. "I acted as the ultimate source," explains Lucas. "I was the only one that had the whole vision...