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...Brotherhood does not have a large following of its own in Syria, but has been directing an increasingly fierce terrorist campaign. Religious friction continues to smolder. Although the country is predominantly Sunni Muslim, Assad's minority Alawite sect dominates the government and armed forces. Assad has also been challenged by elements in his own military, most recently in January, when some 150 officers in elite air force and armored units were arrested on charges of plotting a coup. Still, Western diplomats in the Middle East believe that Assad remains in command. There were no signs last week that...
...race question never explicitly came up. "It didn't affect things as far as the team is concerned," Fleming said, "but it is different that if there were six or seven Black guys on the team," Kyle Standley, a freshman guard, said. "There really wasn't any friction. People didn't have to act differently around them [but] people were definitely aware." According to Dixon, "we joked about it more than anything else...
...responsibilities of the head tutor have increased to insure that no friction develops between the two departments and that no educational area in the gap between the departments is ignored...
...know how to achieve recovery. You needed a Keynesian revolution, and this came only inadvertently with defense spending, which was far beyond anything the New Deal envisaged." Blum emphasizes another problem: Roosevelt was trying simultaneously to achieve recovery and reform. Says Blum: "There was a kind of friction between the aims of recovery and the aims of reform...
...Catholic Church was exerting its traditional moral opposition to the crushing of human freedom. Yet the crisis was also causing friction within the church. Some Polish bishops and many of the clergy were pushing for a more militant role. Archbishop Glemp, anxious to keep the church above the political struggle and avoid inciting violence that might cause a Soviet invasion, was more cautious. But as last week's sermon showed, the primate was not afraid to issue moral condemnation when he felt the situation demanded strong words. Apparently stung by his criticism, Jaruzelski met with Glemp on Saturday...