Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French and British are alienated when President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles denounce, and thus doom, their attack on Egypt after President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal...
...particularly ugly incident, some 20 armed men stormed the house of two stonecutters, Abdel Aziz Idris and his brother Hussein. Every window in their house, which they had built themselves, was broken. The Idris children and Abdel's pregnant wife were beaten before an Israeli army patrol arrived to rescue them. The Idrises do not know why they were targeted. "We enjoyed good neighborly relations," says Abdel Idris, "but after the murder of the Israeli youth, we were told again and again, 'If you won't leave your home, we shall beat you up.' " Counters Zeev...
...Islamic conference in Pakistan last month. Moreover, despite Syrian advice to the contrary, the 22,000-man Lebanese army has been rebuilt along sectarian lines; 90% of its officers are Christian (mostly right-wing Phalangist), whereas 80% of its enlisted men are Muslim. Complained Syria's Premier Abdel Raouf Kasm to TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak: "Nothing has been done in four years to achieve national entente or to extend the authority of the legal government throughout the country. Our decision to withdraw is final and irrevocable...