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Hussein was alluding to the stubborn efforts by Syrian President Hafez Assad to block the session. Though Assad failed, he ordered several Syrian-based factions of the P.L.O. to boycott the proceedings. The meeting thus deepened divisions within the troubled organization, with both pro-Arafat and anti-Arafat sides claiming the cause of a Palestinian homeland as their own. Whether or not the rift hardens into a permanent split, the internecine conflict promises to weaken further the organization that has come to represent the hopes of 4 million Palestinians...
...National Security Council at the White House. The Republican politicians had long wanted out of Lebanon ("The forget period," said one of the President's men, "is about six weeks in American life. We have to be out before June"). Only Shultz had resisted a pullout ("A very stubborn man," said Weinberger). The emergency conference lasted two hours. Reagan decided that Sunday evening: pull out, now, as fast as possible. Then he was off for a vacation at his California ranch, and the decision had been made...
Moreover, bracken has in several global regions devastated croplands and pastures, thereby endangering livestock that eat the fern. Yet even weed killing sprays can not eliminate the stubborn plant, and in Scotland alone, the bracken has monopolized more than 400,000 acres of cleared land...
...typical of the proud, stubborn, courageous Indira Gandhi that she hated to wear a bulletproof vest and rarely agreed to do so. Certainly she was a fatalist. The night before her death, she had told a large, enthusiastic crowd in Orissa's capital city, Bhubaneswar, "I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation...
Massachusetts, considered a stubborn bastion of liberalism, was the only state to resist President Richard M. Nixon's reelection tidal wave...