Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...resignation last week of Chedli Klibi, a Tunisian, as secretary-general of the 21-member Arab League; he had been heavily criticized for balking at Egyptian attempts to get the league to authorize the sending of Arab troops to defend Saudi Arabia. Some observers speculate that the league may split in two: an anti-Saddam faction based in Cairo and a pro-Saddam grouping based in Tunis. That might be all to the good; it would leave the moderates free to pursue their own interests without the necessity of trying to reach some sort of consensus with Saddam's supporters...
Whether or not there is a formal split, many Middle Eastern experts expect | power and influence in the Arab world to flow to a new axis of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. Some glimmerings of this alignment surfaced last week when Egypt and Syria agreed to send as many as 50,000 more soldiers to help defend the Saudis. The new grouping would not be entirely reassuring to the U.S. unless Syria's leader, Hafez Assad, completely abandons support of Palestinian terrorist groups. But the U.S. would benefit if Egypt developed political influence to match the cultural clout it already...
...There seems to be a split among the ranks," says Poor. "I think there is growing support...
Bush's political right wing, normally united in militancy, is split between those who, like New York Times columnist William Safire, would smash Saddam Hussein now, and those who, like columnist Patrick Buchanan, are dead set against "an American-initiated war." So far, Bush is more amused than troubled by that debate. A greater concern is the rising specter of a recession. There is not much disagreement on that among Bush partisans. Richard Lesher, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, views the White House from his office window and allows that "recession is all around us already." There...
...issue that had always rallied unanimous support -- Arab hatred of the state of Israel -- proved divisive too. Through the 1980s, the cleavages seemed only to widen as the members of the Arab League, now 21 strong, lined up on different sides in the Iran-Iraq war and split their loyalties between Washington and Moscow. So Saddam Hussein's precipitous invasion of Kuwait two weeks ago hardly shattered Arab unity. It merely stripped away the flimsy facade of harmony and exposed the Arab League for what it has long been: a group of states with widely differing interests...