Word: militiaization
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...Lawrence, policemen busted heads every day for weeks--many students left Harvard to serve in the militia, and, by one report, "all seemed to enjoy a good fling." But the strike committee, with representatives of 24 nationalities, held the strike together. After pictures and newspaper accounts of the violence and the victory, the scene shifts to Angelo Rocco, an old man now. Standing on the banks of the Merrimack, he points across to the brick mills, now abandoned, and says in a heavy accent, "They called us un-American, but I really disagree with that. We were born...
...Palestinians, who are pitted against the Christian militia, represent the fighting edge of a leftist, largely Muslim coalition that calls itself the National Movement. The Muslims, who probably constitute a majority of Lebanon's population-no one can be sure since there has been no census in 48 years-have been strongly influenced by the P.L.O. ever since the end of the civil war, when the Palestinians emerged as a powerful state within a state, controlling most of southern Lebanon...
Israel has provided Haddad with millions of dollars' worth of military hardware for his 2,000-man militia. Haddad needs all the help he can get. P.L.O. 105-mm howitzers and mortars at Beaufort Castle regularly pound his headquarters in Marjayoun (pop. 14,000). Haddad also has to contend with an estimated 700 Palestinian guerrillas who have set up 40 outposts in the zone nominally controlled by UNIFIL, the 5,900-man U.N. observer force...
Haddad remains something of an enigma. In an interview at Bennt Jbail, a Shi'ite Muslim village three miles inside the Lebanese border, the stocky, smiling officer claimed to belong to no political party and seemed to have no interest in joining forces with the Phalangist militia in northern Lebanon. Said he: "My only ambition is to see Lebanon united and peaceful. I don't have a clear idea of what is going on in Beirut." For Haddad, the biggest threat to Lebanon is the Syrians; he fears they want to annex the entire country. "Take the Syrians...
...moment, Haddad is completely dependent on Israel's military and economic support. A group of his officers, gathered in Bennt Jbail for a briefing, wore Israeli khaki jackets with Haddad's Christian militia shoulder insignia; one was in jeans and several sported cowboy boots. About 70% of the people who live in Free Lebanon are Shi'ite Muslims; to the area's Christian minority of 33,000, Haddad is nothing short of a hero. In Marjayoun, several young militiamen gathered around pinball machines to talk about their leader. "We are so thankful for Major Haddad...