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...attacking Syria, and Syria has no chance of defeating Israel." So said Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres last week, for the moment allaying fears that Israel might be on the verge of making a pre- emptive strike against its strongest Arab neighbor. Almost simultaneously, Syria's Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam declared that the Damascus government of President Hafez Assad "is not seeking aggression," though he added that Syria would "respond with all the potential it possesses" if attacked. Those statements were intended to put to rest, at least temporarily, a flurry of war talk that has rocked the region...
...activism ignited early. He walked miles to school, often slept in a mosque, and was booted out of secondary school after starting a student strike. He later entered a military academy, where he immersed himself in the Koran and the passionate speeches in praise of Arab nationalism by Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom Gaddafi came to worship. After graduating, he spent ten months at a British army signals school...
...semiofficial newspaper al Ahram accused the country's state-controlled television of "presenting untruths" about the "success" of the rescue mission. Opposition critics charged that Mubarak had played into the hands of the U.S. and Israel by claiming that Libya had been behind the hijacking. Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid sharply denied , Libya's claim that Egypt was considering a strike against its troublesome neighbor. He added, however, that if Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi were to "start a military or aggressive action against us," then "that is another story...
...gunmen managed to overpower four other guards and force Guerrero and Bertoux to help open the safe. The take, an estimated $9.5 million in cash and valuables, was the largest theft of its kind in France since 1980, when burglars took $10.5 million from the Cannes home of Prince Abdel Aziz bin Ahmed al Thani of Qatar...
...Golan Heights and southern Lebanon, as well as the no-man's-land between Greek and Turkish Cyprus. But U.N. peacekeepers have failed to cushion nations from attack on several occasions, most infamously when the U.N. pulled its troops out of the Sinai Peninsula at the insistence of Gamal Abdel Nasser just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel in 1967. Scoffed former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban...