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...next decade in obscurity, Rong was publicly rehabilitated in the late 1970s. He now lives in a comfortable Peking house and is tended by servants. Says he: "For a long time I have held the view that those methods that are used in capitalist enterprises can be used in socialist ones as well...
...Rumania and Poland. In 1982, Arafat accused Abu Nidal of being a hireling of MOSSAD, Israel's elite intelligence agency. That did not put an end to the fratricide: in April 1983, members of the Abu Nidal organization killed moderate P.L.O. Spokesman Issam Sartawi at a meeting of the Socialist International in Albufeira, Portugal...
From about the time of his break with Arafat through 1981, the Abu Nidal organization seems to have operated mainly out of Baghdad under a variety of names. Among them: Black June, the Arab Revolutionary Brigades, the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims and, recently. Black September. In the early years gunmen under Abu Nidal's command are credited with having assaulted Syrian embassies and other targets, spurred on by Syria's crackdown on Palestinian forces in Lebanon and tensions between Iraq and the Damascus government of President Hafez Assad. Three months after the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic...
...pastor's preaching. He was, writes Fox, "the educated Protestant's Billy Sunday," who would "strut, gyrate, jerk, bend and quake." Bethel's growing prestige strengthened Niebuhr's hand when he took on Henry Ford, castigating the legendary automaker and other industrialists. He ended up a thoroughgoing Christian Socialist, evoking the biblical prophets and a bit of Marx as he thundered against the exploitation of labor...
...Union years saw head-spinning political changes in Niebuhr. Although he ran for Congress on the Socialist ticket, he later came to accept the capitalism, tempered by welfare programs, of the New Deal. Niebuhr led the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, but later railed against isolationist clergy and supported America's entry into World...