Word: shied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wazzan and Jumblatt, the seven-man National Salvation Committee includes: President Sarkis, a Maronite Christian; Foreign Minister Fuad Butros, a Greek Orthodox; Parliamentary Deputy Nasri al Mallouf, a Greek Catholic; Bashir Gemayel, a Maronite and leader of the combined Christian militia known as the Lebanese Forces; Nabeh Berri, a Shi'ite Muslim and leader of the Shi'ite militia known as Amal...
...Saudis insist that a revolution like the one that occurred in Iran could not happen in their country. But they do have a large Shi'ite Muslim minority, ethnic kin to Iranian Shi'ites, who have traditionally been disadvantaged. After the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the startling uprising by religious extremists at the Grand Mosque in Mecca later that year, King Khalid acted to improve contacts with disaffected elements in his country...
...Iraqi forces two weeks ago, causing some Iraqi soldiers to attempt to swim across the Shatt al Arab estuary to Iraqi territory. Iran is insisting on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, payment of enormous reparations by Iraq or its Arab allies, repatriation to Iraq of about 100,000 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim refugees of Iranian descent, and withdrawal of Iraqi forces from every square foot of Iranian territory. Iran has demanded as much as $150 billion in war reparations from Iraq, although Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani pointedly noted that Iran would abandon its claim to reparations...
...credentials. Among the candidates: Ahmed Hassan Bakr, former President of Iraq (1968-79), who shared power with Saddam Hussein for several years and was finally replaced by him in July 1979. Thus power would remain in the hands of the politically dominant Sunni Muslims. But as a gesture to Shi'ite Muslims, who make up 60% of the Iraqi population, as well as to Ayatullah Khomeini, the Muslim world's ranking Shi'ite, a prominent Shi'ite would become Prime Minister...
...indication of the extent to which an Iranian victory over Iraq is causing fear and consternation throughout the region. Saddam Hussein may somehow survive in spite of his army's defeat, but he is vulnerable because he is a Sunni Muslim in a country whose population is 60% Shi'ite, the branch to which Iran's Ayatullah belongs. Although Saddam Hussein could be replaced by another Sunni, the gulf states are most worried by the thought of a Shi'ite government coming to power in Baghdad, thereby creating the conditions for a Shi'ite alliance...