Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barely had the Amman accord been made public when P.L.O. leaders began issuing reservations. Farouk Kaddoumi, an Arafat confidant, insisted on the creation of a separate Palestinian state. Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, Arafat's spokesman, demanded that a unified Arab delegation, rather than simply a joint Jordanian-Palestinian team, negotiate with Israel. In a radio interview, Arafat said he appreciated Mubarak's efforts, but insisted on an international peace conference rather than bilateral talks with Israel...
...Mubarak announced one of the year's most bizarre plots: he had succeeded in embarrassing Gaddafi by ensnarling the Libyan dictator in one of his own adventures. The previous day, the Tripoli government radio had gleefully announced that a Libyan "suicide squad" had assassinated former Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Bakkush in Cairo. In fact, the assassins' plot had been uncovered by Egyptian authorities before the hitmen reached their intended victim. Bakkush was roughed up by the Egyptians, smeared with human blood and photographed to look as if he had been murdered. The pictures were sent to Gaddafi...
...personal friendship with Assad. The two men talked for more than two hours before Murphy flew to Jerusalem, where he conferred with Peres for an hour. After seeing Mubarak in Cairo and lunching with Hussein in Amman, Murphy returned to Damascus on Friday. He met with Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam, Assad's chief trouble-shooter in Lebanon, then went to Beirut for another round with President Amin Gemayel...
...became the country's first President and, briefly, a national hero after a bloodless coup toppled King Farouk; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Cairo. A hero of Egypt's 1948 war with Israel, Naguib was recruited to lead a movement of dissident younger officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, aimed at ending the monarchy; after the revolution Naguib was named commander in chief of the armed forces and, later, Prime Minister and President. But he soon ran afoul of Nasser; in 1954 he was forced out of office and placed under house arrest, where...
...standing by to light the Olympic flame," he told me, "in case they chose me." Abdel Kaber, the Moroccan aide who has been with him recently, whispered that the champ had not even been invited to the opening ceremonies. Phone calls were made on his behalf, but it was too late. Nothing could be done, apparently...