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...Israeli and French retaliatory air strikes last week may have destroyed the headquarters of the Shi'ite Muslim militia called Islamic Amal, but the attacks could not hope to wipe out the group's suicidal zeal. For the followers of Shi'ite extremists, especially supporters of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, dying in a jihad, or "holy war," means martyrdom and a guaranteed place in heaven. With the recent suicide bombings of the U.S., French and Israeli headquarters in Lebanon, radical Shi'ite groups have become a small but potentially destabilizing force in Lebanon. Says...
...about the American intervention. Former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop had been their hero, and when he was placed under house arrest by extremists led by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard and then executed by a Military Revolutionary Army Council headed by General Hudson Austin, the earlier revolutionaries lost their zeal. Said Lloyd Noel, a former Attorney General under Bishop who had been imprisoned after breaking with Bishop's party: "The Americans should feel free to establish a base here." He urged that the U.S. stay for at least two years of transition to a more stable government. Lyden Ramdhany...
...Newhouse executives and studying financial records, IRS Appraiser Joseph Baniewicz put a value of $1.23 billion on the estate at the time of the publisher's death. Sons Donald, 53, and Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., 55, who seem to have inherited their father's workaholic habits and zeal for expansion, have since added enterprises like Random House and a string of cable-television companies, while selling off radio and TV stations...
Even some supporters of LSC concede that such zeal on behalf of clients has sometimes turned into excessive zeal on behalf of causes. But even some critics argue that the improprieties do not justify the Reagan efforts. Says Gerald Caplan, a law professor at George Washington University who served as LSC's president for six months last year: "A lot of attorneys there deserve credit for working under the most adverse circumstances, which is noble. But they were also some of the most contentious, self-righteous people I've ever met. They need containing, but not dismemberment...
Every year during the summer, waves of migrants work their way northward from the South and Mexico, harvesting the fruit and vegetables of orchards and farms. Although their often appalling working conditions and meager wages have long been the object of reformers' zeal, some of the migrants are suffering an even greater degradation: slavery...