Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where is he? That question, in bold Arabic script, was written across posters displayed on walls throughout the Muslim areas of Lebanon last week. They portrayed Imam Moussa Sadr, 50, the beloved leader of the country's 900,000-strong Shi'ite Muslim community, who inexplicably disappeared in late August. So long as the question of his whereabouts remained unanswered, the mystery of the missing Imam threatened to trouble relations between Lebanon, Libya and Iran-and possibly other nations as well...
...spiritual leader of the Muslim world. The embarrassed Libyans quickly sent a team to Rome that claimed to have documentary proof that the Imam had left Tripoli on schedule. The Palestine Liberation Organization, which feeds on Libyan oil money and also backs the Muslims in their struggle against Lebanon's Christians, dispatched its own investigators to Tripoli. They reportedly turned up the Imam's baggage, abandoned in a hotel. Italian police, after combing hotels, boardinghouses and the homes of Lebanese in Rome, announced that there was no evidence that the Imam had ever been in the Italian capital...
Whatever the explanation of Moussa Sadr's disappearance, troubled Lebanon had lost a potent moderating force in the Imam. As a political as well as spiritual leader of the country's most impoverished community, he had founded technical schools, sports centers and medical clinics for the poor. He had repeatedly attempted to head off bloody sectarian strife. In 1975, during the Lebanese civil war, he interrupted an antiwar hunger strike to persuade Muslim guerrillas to lift the siege of a Christian village, and thus averted a massacre. Last week many of his followers were praying that Moussa Sadr...
...Phalangist Christian "Voice of Lebanon" radio reported that Syria was sending more forces into the area...
Lebanese officials yesterday called for U.N. intervention. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is considering sending a U.N. official to Lebanon to try to organize a cease-fire, sources said...