Word: shies
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...Shi'ite Muslim religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Araki, died last night, prompting international mourning and potential conflict about succession. Araki, who was at least 100 years old -- and maybe as old as 106 -- died after spending three weeks in intensive care in a Tehran hospital. Araki was designated the marja ala -- or supreme leader -- of Shi'ite Muslims only last year, when two other supreme leaders died quickly after assuming the post. Despite few lines between church and state in Iran, Araki avoided involvement in government. His Shi'ite sect claims 10 percent of all followers of Islam...
...resolutions. That would mean at minimum allowing an intrusive monitoring system to ensure that he built no more weapons of mass destruction and recognizing Kuwait's sovereignty and borders. Administration officials also called on Baghdad to halt its attacks on the Kurds in the north and Shi'ites in the south, return Kuwaiti prisoners and property and improve its human- rights record...
...phases. Until now, Syria has rejected a staged pullout, which Israel prefers in order to build trust gradually. Christopher left the Mideast without any tangible achievement to boast of. Late last week, in a move which may further imperil Mideast negotiations, Israeli commandos abducted the leader of a militant Shi'ite faction in Lebanon...
...cooperation with U.N. arms inspections is compliance enough. But U.S. officials doubt Saddam has renounced his dreams of regional dominance. Moreover, he is violating the U.N. resolutions on two key points by refusing to acknowledge Kuwait's independence and by committing human-rights violations against Iraq's Kurds and Shi'ites. Says Secretary of State Warren Christopher: "The stakes are too high to give Iraq the benefit of the doubt or to let our policy be dictated by commercial interests or simple fatigue...
Government forces in Iraq have accelerated their campaign to clear opposition Shi'ite Muslims from a vast marshland in the southern part of the country. Engineers have diverted water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to drain large areas of the swamps, home to an estimated 200,000 people, and Iraqi soldiers have burned villages and carried out summary executions. Some witnesses have described attacks using chemical weapons...