Word: abdel
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...Egypt, Libya and Iraq, and all such efforts have ended in failure. Moreover, few details of the new merger have been agreed upon. So far the new partnership has no name, no head of state, no constitution, no joint institutions, no capital city. Nonetheless, Syria's Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam was dispatched to Saudi Arabia and five other Arab states to seek their blessing and invite one and all to join...
DIED. Sharif Abdel Hamid Sharaf, 41, Prime Minister of Jordan since December 1979 and a strong Arab nationalist who was one of King Hussein's closest advisers; of a heart attack; in Amman. A distant cousin of Hussein's, he became Ambassador to Washington and the U.N. after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Following his appointment as chief of the royal Cabinet in 1976 he had been a hard-line advocate of Jordan's close ties to other Arab states and to the Palestinians...
...surprisingly, the anti-American forces in Islamabad were led by a group of pro-Moscow hard-liners such as Syria, Libya and the P.L.O. Declared P.L.O. Delegate Abdel Mohsen Abu Maizer: "Why do you want to compare the Soviet Union, which is offering help and support to the Palestinian people and the Arab cause, to America, which is feeding Israel with weapons in order to kill the Palestinian people?" Among the leading opponents of this pro-Soviet faction was Ghotbzadeh, who asserted that "the liberation of Afghanistan is not less important than the liberation of Palestine." But the U.S. found...
Gertrudis Abdel Khaliq Houston...
...news that came crackling over Radio Aden shortly after midnight indicated that once again intrigue was brewing in the South Yemen capital. Ostensibly for reasons of health, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 40, had resigned as his country's President and secretary-general of the ruling Socialist Party. Replacing him in both positions was Prime Minister Ali Nasser Muhammad, 41. In fact, there had been a bloodless coup...