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...simply the result of sectarian rivalries. It was a show of force, designed to win a larger share of power in Lebanon's political patchwork, by the Druze, a small and esoteric sect with roots in Islam. Last month Walid Jumblatt, Druze chieftain and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, helped organize a National Salvation Front with the deliberate aim of opposing Gemayel. The front struck an alliance with Syria and demanded that Gemayel renounce the May 17 agreement according to which Israel would withdraw its troops if Lebanon agreed to security and political guarantees. It has also insisted...
...theory of international conflict, and it suggests a solution: repair service by the expert "facilitator," the Harvard negotiations professor. Hence the vogue for peace academies, the mania for mediators, the belief that the world's conundrums would yield to the right intermediary, the right presidential envoy, the right socialist international delegation. Yet Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, to take just two candidates for the Roger Fisher School of Conflict Resolution, have perfectly adequate phone service. They need only an operator to make the connection. Their problem is that they have very little...
...crowd, which grew to more than 1500 through the course of the afternoon, including many whites, as well as a smattering of socialist and communist workers. The rally, which took on a carnival atmosphere, featured many colorful Mel King balloons, as well as dozens of banners proclaiming everything from "Gays and Lesbians for Mel King" to "Bald is Beautiful--Vote for Mel King...
...some ways, Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, 49, was already beginning to look like the Prime Minister he has yearned so long to become. Gone were the open-necked shirts, safari jackets and jeans he had taken to wearing in Parliament in an attempt to project a populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi...
...skeptics, including the Communists and some Christian Democrats, a Socialist-led government promised to be little more than a passing novelty. They saw no reason to believe that Craxi, for all his reformist zeal, could be more successful than his dozens of predecessors who fell victims to Parliament's inexhaustible talent for fomenting political instability. There were optimistic politicians, though, who saw grounds for hope in the electorate's demonstrated distaste in the June elections for the major parties' malgoverno (bad government). In their view, Craxi has an opportunity to bring a durable change to the pattern...