Word: war-torn
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...change in attitudes." Thus did Democratic Congressman Clarence D. Long of Maryland last week describe the latest act in what has become a lengthy, confusing and important political psychodrama over U.S. involvement in war-torn El Salvador. Long, who is chairman of the 13-member House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, had just listened to Secretary of State George Shultz express support for what seemed to be a new and more moderate solution to El Salvador's ugly three-year civil war...
...War-torn El Salvador poses the greatest security problems for the Pope. The government has turned down the Vatican's call for a cease-fire while John Paul is in the country. As it is, the Pope will have to make peace within the church. Conservative supporters of the government fear that he is coming to make a plea for "dialogue" with the rebels, while some proponents of liberation theology see the Pontiff as a friend of the ruling "oligarchy." Caught in the middle is Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, the temporary administrator of the Archdiocese in the capital...
...insisting that it will not withdraw its 30,000 troops until Lebanon has concluded a formal agreement to bring about normal relations and set up security arrangements between the two countries. The U.S. agrees with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel that such a move could offend Muslim factions in the war-torn country and in the Arab states whose support Lebanon badly needs, notably Syria and Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the U.S. has opposed Israel's request for at least three early-warning stations in southern Lebanon, to be manned by some 750 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib is said...
During his five years as TIME'S bureau chief in Cairo, Wilton Wynn frequently covered the fighting in war-torn Lebanon. Now the bureau chief in Rome, Wynn was back in Lebanon last week when Bashir Gemayel was assassinated. A few days earlier, Wynn had obtained the only interview with Gemayel after his election as President, and the last one, it was to turn out, that the Christian leader was to give. Wynn's impressions...
There were no illusions about the fragility of the prevailing calm or the problems that still remain to be solved in the war-torn land. Grudge fights between Christians and Muslims caused several deaths, illustrating the difficulties President-elect Bashir Gemayel, former leader of the Christian militia forces, faces when he tries to pull together a country of feuding sects. On Wednesday, Gemayel had a secret meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Later, a French soldier attached to a United Nations unit was killed by sniper fire outside the city. A Syrian MIG-25 jet fighter was struck...