Word: ite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brother against my cousin. But I, my brother and my cousin against the outsider." That old Arab proverb aptly described the tenuous unity that emerged last week among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they literally fought for their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser...
...bring out 32 wounded Palestinians, but many others were left behind without medical attention. According to some accounts, several Palestinians who had been taken to a hospital were slain in their beds by Amal militiamen. Amal leaders in turn charged that angry Palestinians had murdered some sleeping Shi'ite militiamen in a building outside the Sabra camp...
...prisoner exchange played itself out, Lebanon once again was in turmoil. In Beirut, Shi'ite militiamen battled with Palestinians for control of three Palestinian refugee camps on the southern edge of the city, two of them Sabra and Shatila, where the infamous 1982 massacre took place. In the Christian eastern sector of the capital, a car bomb of unexplained origin killed 55 people and wounded 176. In Cairo, in the meantime, the Egyptian government announced that it had narrowly averted the car bombing of a diplomatic mission, presumed to be the U.S. embassy. And in Kuwait late last week...
...family that he should be left to rot in prison because the price is too high." In Lebanon, meantime, the instability precipitated by the war continued to grow. Sporadic fighting has been going on for weeks among several Lebanese factions, and last week bitter clashes erupted between the Shi'ite Amal militia and Palestinians. Nobody seemed to know exactly what started the latest confrontation, but the significance was obvious: the Lebanese Shi'ites, the largest population group in the country, remember the steely grip the P.L.O. maintained over southern Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli invasion, and are determined that...
...Beirut suburb, killing more than 80 people and injuring 200, there was little doubt as to the attack's target. The detonation took place just 50 yds. from the home of Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the Hizballah (Party of God), a militant pro-Iranian Shi'ite group. Several of Fadlallah's bodyguards were among the victims, but the sheik, who was in a nearby mosque, was uninjured. No one ever claimed responsibility for the incident...