Word: sadr
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...menial jobs in Lebanon and who have long received second-class treatment in domestic matters from Lebanon's Christians and the religiously dominant Sunni sect, to which Karami and most Moslems in his Cabinet belong. Now the peasants were angry at becoming pawns in war. Imam Mousa Sadr, religious leader of the Shia, called an effective one-day strike last week that even curtailed operations at Beirut airport and forced foreign jets to divert to Istanbul. The government quickly voted $8,500,000 in relief funds for the refugees, but Mousa Sadr threatened more strikes unless his people...