Word: abdelal
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...Panelists included Esko Aho, prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995; Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990; Malcolm Fraser, prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983; Jamil Mahuad, president of Ecuador from 1998 to 2000; and Abdel Salam Majali, prime minister of Jordan from 1993 to 1995 and again from...
...Rabin did before him, Arafat must discover a new way of dealing with the Israelis. Otherwise, he will never persuade them to give the Palestinians what they want. Many Palestinians believe their fortunes will improve only when Arafat's domination of their affairs ends. "Democracy is needed," says Haider Abdel Shafi, who headed the Palestinian team at the Madrid Peace Conference. "Arafat will never admit that he made a mistake. He will simply blame Israeli aggression...
...southwestern Scotland for every scrap of debris from Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up on Dec. 21, 1988 and crashed in a horrific fireball on the town of Lockerbie. The evidence-10,232 pages of testimony, 235 witnesses-was enough for the court to convict Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, 48, for the murder of 270 people and sentence him to life imprisonment in a Scottish jail. His co-defendant, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, 44, was found not guilty...
...exploded. The next day, they quietly took down their trees and tinsel and began mourning the 259 passengers and 11 neighbors who were killed. Time has gradually healed those memories, and two years ago Lockerbie restored its Christmas decorations. But it was last week, with the conviction of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, that the town seemed finally at peace. "There is a sense of relief that the trial is over and the verdict given," says local councilor Marjory McQueen. "I think Lockerbie has drawn a line under what happened...
CONVICTED. ABDEL BASSET ALI AL-MEGRAHI, former head of Libyan aviation security, of the murder of 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; by a Scottish tribunal in the Netherlands. Al-Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison. His co-defendant, LAMEN KHALIFA FHIMAH, was acquitted owing to insufficient evidence...