Word: sectarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Remember don't show her the C I A sectarian." Tribbie warms as White leads a victor into the tunnels...
...hostile Muslim neighbors. The Maronites survived without ever being reduced to minority status, not because of law or the goodness of their neighbors but because of their mountain toughness, their reliance on the gun as readily as on the courts or the promises of others. During the years of sectarian conflict when the Maronite community and its culture were threatened with destruction, Gemayel re-introduced to his people the old mountain defenses of toughness and self-reliance. As President he intended to do the same thing for Lebanon as a whole...
Bashir fought and killed when he found it necessary, but after his election the man who was considered a narrow and fanatical sectarian by his enemies acknowledged that he had to make concessions to non-Christian communities if he were to develop a national consensus...
During eight years of bitter sectarian strife in Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, 34, gained a reputation as an iron-willed warlord of his country's Christian militia forces as he fought both Muslim and rival Christian groups. But now Gemayel, who will take office as President on Sept. 23, is talking like the national leader of Christian and Muslim alike. Last week Lebanon's President-to-be, lounging in blue slacks and an open-necked shirt in his 400-year-old ancestral home in Bikfaya, talked with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn about Lebanon's problems. Highlights...
...Part political idealist and part storm trooper, Gemayel, 34, has shown he will use whatever means necessary to achieve his nationalist goals. His supporters argue that Lebanon's dire condition requires just that sort of toughness. Opponents claim that he is a fierce political animal dedicated to narrow sectarian aims...