Word: syria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three of Abu Nidal's top lieutenants were shot at his house near Tripoli late last year and their bodies buried under tons of concrete. In all, says the P.L.O., 25 associates have been murdered at the house, and other F.R.C. members suspected of disloyalty have been executed in Syria and Lebanon...
...military reserves for all men from the age of 21 to 45? Does the United States have specially-made public trash cans designed to withstand a bomb explosion? When was the last time you saw a sign on a bus warning you about suspicious packages? Would America want Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as neighbors instead of Canada and Mexico? Clearly, there are major differences in the immediate security needs of Israel and America, and these differences necessarily have an effect on the political liberties of those living inside Israel. For example, Israeli Arabs do not serve in the Israeli...
Defenders of Israeli policy will claim that this is a relatively humane occupation, and they are right. The Israeli military command maintains certain judicial procedures for Palestinians. The Israeli government allows press into the troubled areas. Israel seems democratic compared to Syria or Iraq, both of which massacre thousands of their own citizens and prohibit press coverage...
Because of the country's instability, the presidency had been vacant for more than 13 months before Moawad got the job. Unlike many other legislators, Moawad, 64, a moderate Maronite Catholic who enjoyed Syria's backing and had served in the Lebanese parliament since 1957, never fled the country to escape the civil war. Conciliatory and a persistent negotiator, he was chosen President in early November by 58 aging Deputies meeting in the mess hall of an abandoned air base...
...body politic, so often declared, may yet prove to have been (slightly) exaggerated. Last week, meeting in an abandoned air base at Qlaiaat in northern Lebanon, 58 aging Deputies of the country's parliament elected Rene Moawad, 64, a moderate Maronite Christian lawyer who enjoys the backing of Syria, to the presidency. The vote was a crucial step toward fulfilling the conditions of the peace plan brokered last month by the Arab League...