Word: sectarian
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...Many people don't understand that Brandeis is not a religious institution," Riggs said. Though it has strong ties to Judaism, Brandeis is a non-sectarian university, she said...
...authorities have discovered that the same terrorist gangs that turned Belfast into a sectarian battleground have siphoned off millions of dollars from the reconstruction to finance their continuing war. As money for new construction pours into Belfast, paramilitary forces on both sides demand a cut of the profits. This Ulster Mafia exacts its levies from local businesses, and if people do not pay up, a bomb or a shot in the night may follow...
Killed in the gun battle were all eight I.R.A. terrorists, along with a 38- year-old man caught in the cross fire. It was the most serious setback for the I.R.A. in 18 years of sectarian violence in Ulster. Said Tom King, London's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: "We are determined to ensure that terrorism does...
...attacks, the worst this year in the crumbling Lebanese capital, accounted for almost half the country's 123 car- bomb-related deaths since January. They underlined yet again the bloody logic of Beirut's seemingly senseless cycle of sectarian vendettas. No groups claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Christian leaders promptly blamed the East Beirut atrocity on Muslims, charging that they were acting for the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Across town in his West Beirut headquarters, Nabih Berri, the chief of the predominantly Shi'ite Amal militia, ascribed the Barbir bombing to Christian militiamen bent on revenge. More...
...Tennessee case have drawn two powerful lobbying outfits into the legal fray. People for the American Way, a civil liberties group, has marshaled resources to help defend the Hawkins County schools. Charges P.A.W. President Anthony Podesta: "If the Fundamentalists are successful, they will have established a right to a sectarian education in the public schools." But to the Concerned Women for America, a conservative group, the case represents a basic fight over religious freedom and the right to control the education of one's children. In a fund-raising letter, C.W.A. Founder Beverly LaHaye called the case "the first major...