Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Karami, 62, had been appointed Prime Minister two weeks ago and asked to form his tenth Cabinet since 1955. It was hoped that Karami, a pro-Syrian Sunni Muslim, would find that a new 26-member Cabinet would be large enough to accommodate all of Lebanon's myriad sectarian interests and make a political reality of the dramatic realignment in the country's balance of military power brought about when Shi'ite militiamen seized control of West Beirut in February...
...crises, Karami's tenth try is likely to be the toughest of all. He must form a Cabinet that reflects both the hopes for peace and the desires for power of his country's warring religious factions. "Let us bury our hatreds and sectarian prejudices," Karami implored his countrymen after a two-hour meeting with Gemayel. "It is time to set aside the grudges to save Lebanon...
...those who aim to spread Islamic fundamentalism throughout the Middle East. "Now the whole question of Shi'ite Muslim vs. Sunni Muslim has been reopened in our society," notes the publisher of an influential Kuwaiti newspaper. "If there is any destructive force within our country, it is the sectarian issue." That the issue is incendiary was proved at the conclusion of the 45-day trial. The terrorists were whisked away in armed personnel carriers manned by soldiers with machine guns. Judge Sammar was driven home in an armor-plated Cadillac...
...Syrians, who sponsored the conference, were deeply disappointed by its failure. Declaring that "Lebanon's salvation starts with bringing the country out of the sectarian quagmire," the Syrian government newspaper, Tishrin, asked whether the country's leaders "will learn this lesson, or have they become so insensitive that only cauterization will work for them?" Having supported President Gemayel during the conference, the Syrians privately blamed the Christian "godfathers," Chamoun, Franjieh and Pierre Gemayel, for the breakdown...
...Sectarian murder, that tit-for-tat madness so familiar to residents of war-torn Lebanon, found a new venue last week in the streets of Israel and the occupied West Bank. In the Israeli port of Ashdod, 22 miles from Tel Aviv, an Arab grenade exploded on a crowded bus, killing three Israelis and wounding ten others. Responsibility for the action was claimed by the Black June terrorist group, a breakaway faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization based in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Only three days earlier, a bus carrying some 60 Palestinian laborers from their West Bank homes...