Word: wings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JERUSALEM--Early results in yesterday's parliamentary elections showed the right-wing Likud bloc and left-leaning Labor Party locked in a tight race...
...said he had meetings scheduled today withparties in the national camp, which is made up ofreligious and right-wing parties...
Peres indicated the left bloc held an edge with49 seats compared to 47 for Likud and itsright-wing allies. His count excluded fourreligious parties that were expected to get about18 seats and hold the balance of power...
...introductory speeches, hardly understanding a word since they are all in Arabic. Peres knows that while the Arab vote will account for as many as 14 of the Knesset's 120 seats, Labor stands a chance of taking perhaps four of those seats, the rest going to left-wing Arab parties. "If you vote against the Jews, there will be no peace," he bellows into the microphone. "If you are serious, give us your vote, and you will have rights." Among the crowd, Halad Ali Haj, 28, an out-of-work painter, mutters, "I vote for the intifadeh...
...Aristide affair is exacerbating a latent split among Haiti's Roman Catholics between the official church and Aristide's "prophetic" wing. Both work for human rights and justice, but the official church, which led the nonviolent popular uprising that forced Duvalier to flee, insists on orderly and deliberate change. The church's internal conflict has become yet another wound in Haiti's suffering and demoralized society...