Word: abboud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago was abuzz, though, with speculation that a deal was in the works. In a front-page story, the Chicago Tribune claimed that Robert Abboud, president of Occidental Petroleum, and Drexel Burnham Lambert, a New York City investment banking firm, were putting together a group of investors to rescue Continental with a $2 billion infusion of capital. The story seemed plausible because Abboud was once chairman of First Chicago, Continental's crosstown competitor. He was abruptly fired in 1980, after his bank suffered an earnings slump...
...Abboud admitted last week that he had advised Drexel Burnham Lambert on a possible investment in Continental but contended that he was not financially involved in the deal. Nonetheless, people who know the pugnacious Abboud say that he would love to get back into the big-money whirl of Chicago banking, especially if he could compete head on with the bank that sent him into corporate exile...
...work of an electrical engineer named Abdel Sallam Sallah Farag. He suggested having First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki el-Istambuli , a member of the Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight) group, and three others shoot Sadat at the military-day parade. This plan was approved by Abboud Zomor in his hideout near the pyramids of Giza. It was also sanctioned by a fundamentalist group in the southern city of Asyut, which had launched attacks on police stations in Asyut soon after Sadat was killed. Finally, the plan was accepted by the plotters' spiritual leader, a blind mufti named...
...plotters were well financed and well armed. One ringleader of the group, Abboud Zomor, an ex-army major who deserted, was said to have plotted several ways of killing Sadat. He considered shooting the President at his rest house in the Nile Delta. He also thought of exploding a truckload of butane gas on a Cairo street as Sadat drove...
Once Sadat had been killed, a leader of the group, Dr. Amin Youssef el Demeri, asked Abboud Zomor to delay any move to overthrow the government until a more careful plan could be worked out. Whether the conspirators were strong enough to take over at that point is doubtful. In any case, security forces moved in and arrested many of the plotters before they could take further action...