Word: sectarian
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...Israelis that their demand to keep a residual military presence in the country is unnecessary. With that aim in mind, Washington has undertaken a $251 million crash program to rebuild the regular Lebanese army, which is in a state of serious disrepair after eight years of civil war and sectarian strife. Last week 32 U.S.-made M48 tanks were hoisted off a ship in Beirut for delivery to the Lebanese army. Twenty-eight Green Berets from the U.S. Army Special Forces, part of a team of 75 American advisers now in Lebanon, will begin training the Lebanese in infantry procedures...
...more towards hindering this effort rather than aiding it. Although the leaders of Israel claim to be aware of the fundamental need for a strong and independent Lebanon, their policies belie their words. Israel has long harbored ambitions of fragmenting Lebanon into a series of states designed to be sectarian and rightist in character...
...civic religion from the outset. Struggling against the strong currents of moderation, the New Left formulated a coherent criticism of the very premises of the nation's liberal tradition; it thus attracted a massive following of skeptics where earlier 20th century movements on the Left never got beyond sectarian battles over how best to attack the conservative beast...
WITH LITTLE FANFARE, the New Jersey Legislature last week approved a bill requiring public schools to set aside a minute of silence before each day gets underway. Garden State law-maker have for years tried to pass off such a measure as a non-sectarian incentive for adolescent introspection a perfect opportunity for the tykes to contemplate their relative positions in the cosmos. fortunately, former Governor Brendan Byrne saw through this poorly disguised drive for state sponsored prayer and killed two bills identical to the current legislation. Governor Robert Kean a conservative Republican, has not yet indicated his position...
...such horror was the Sept. 14 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel, Amin's younger brother. That atrocity had threatened to engulf Lebanon in sectarian turmoil and gave Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon an excuse to send his troops into West Beirut. Late last week Gemayel's Phalangist Party announced the arrest of a man suspected of planting the deadly bomb in its East Beirut party headquarters. He was described only as someone in contact with "foreign quarters." There were no such leads, however, in the death last week of PL.O. Chief of Staff Saad Sayel, better known...