Word: sectarian
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...with a non-Congress government, she smoothed over differences with Sheik Abdullah, the aging Lion of Kashmir, and blamed communal tensions on hard-line Muslim and Hindu factions. To demonstrate her government's concern over the strife, Mrs. Gandhi last week reconvened the National Integration Council, a non-sectarian group that includes leaders with different religious and political affiliations...
...kind of war that could drag on for months and perhaps years?or could just as easily end overnight. The conflict between Iraq and Iran might remain in quarantine, limited to battles between two angry neighbors who have a long history of ethnic and sectarian enmity. Or it could suddenly expand, touching off a full-scale confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...sands of the desert. But the web of political and military ties emerging around the Iraq-Iran conflict is complex and paradox-ridden even by Middle Eastern standards. The basic line-up?Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan versus Iran, Syria and Libya?cuts across almost every political, ideological and sectarian bond in the region and once again makes the old slogan of Arab unity ring hollow...
...Israeli Arabs' pilgrimage was a small but stunning triumph over the dislocations of war and the sectarian antagonisms of the Middle East. To begin with, the buses were supplied by Israel's implacable foe Iran, which must have needed the vehicles for the war effort back home. Forced to bypass Iraq, which provides the most direct route to Jordan, the drivers headed north to Turkey. There they were delayed for a week because the border was closed. Finally allowed to pass through Turkey, they were held up for four more days by the Syrians. As Iranians...
...turbulent history, the people of Herat have been conquered by the likes of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane-but it has always been over their dead bodies. Nowadays neither the Soviets nor the Afghan army dare go into the center of the city. The mujahidin control the old quarter, but sectarian fighting has made Herat unsafe for anyone. Understandably, travelers have scratched it from their itineraries. The owner of a handicraft shop, one of the few stores still open, said we were his first customers in a month. "What kind of life is it when you come to work...