Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Syrian-arranged peace had failed to remove some of the basic causes of the civil war because of political feuding among Lebanon's many sectarian factions. The truce had promised reforms that would give the predominant Moslems a larger share of political power and economic programs to develop impoverished Moslem areas. Since January there has been virtually no progress toward these goals, despite intense mediation efforts by Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, principal architect of the truce. Though Khaddam wields enormous influence in Lebanon, based largely on the presence there of close to 9,000 Syrian-trained soldiers...
Harvard University has once more shown that its oft-stated non-sectarian position is merely a veneer to cloak an undisguisable anti-Jewish religious bias. The guilty party this time is the University Food Services. Today, in celebration of an ethnic holiday of a religious source, students were served "St. Patrick's Cake" during lunch. On Monday night, however, on a Jewish religious holiday, Purim, no effort was made to celebrate that festival with Hamentashen. Although an admittedly trivial case, this incident underscores those of this year's Yom Kippur registration and Christmas Dinner. What makes it especially insulting...
...Mormon services. Then, her junior year, Hagee threw herself into the church again. But towards the end of her first semester last year, trying personal events led Hagee to "pull back some" from a religious commitment "that can be totally absorbing." All fall she has been going to non-sectarian services at Memorial Church, although her attendance at the Mormon church back home has not lagged...
...Protestant extremists. In what constitutes sad testimony to the endless cycle of terror and reprisal in Ulster, those murders were, in turn, thought to be in retaliation for three recent pub bombings by the Provisional I.R.A. that killed three and injured 57. In all, 20 people have died in sectarian violence in Northern Ireland since New Year's Eve. The bloodshed added gruesome weight to recent warnings by political leaders that 1976 would see an increase in violence...
Seek and Destroy. Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees-the man responsible for maintaining peace in the province -called the murders "the worst single sectarian killing in Ulster history." Rees was immediately pushed to take action to halt the terrorism and restore confidence in the government's ability to maintain security. Glen Barr, a spokesman for the Ulster Defense Association, warned that Protestant paramilitary groups are under "intense pressure" from the rank and file to go on an all-out military offensive against...