Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the crowd in the drawing/keg room approached the density of a black hole, we turned on the videos in the dance room, which was soon full of writhing bodies pointing up at the TV screens and saying, "Look! It's Paula Abdul!" Suddenly, there was a break in the music, and frustrated dancers began to jeer, stamp their feet, and spit at anyone who even remotely looked like a host...
...moment, Israeli authorities calculate that the naysayers are a bigger problem to Arafat and his appointed negotiators than to the Israelis. Last month chief Palestinian negotiator Haidar Abdul-Shafi echoed a rejectionist demand that his camp "would be happy" to have Palestinians decide in a plebiscite whether to continue in the talks. Such a poll is unlikely to take place -- not least of all because the P.L.O. is not apt to turn such matters over to a public vote. But Abdul-Shafi's remark reflected uneasiness among the delegates over their lack of a popular mandate...
...lesson in what a thankless task they face. They got one anyway, when two French soldiers were killed and five more injured as their convoy, carrying supplies from Belgrade, was raked by machine-gun fire near Sarajevo's airport. The U.N. commander in Sarajevo, Egyptian Brigadier General Hussein Ali Abdul-Razek, blamed the attack on "irresponsible elements" among the Bosnian government troops loyal to President Alija Izetbegovic. Abdul- Razek's deputy, French Lieut. General Philippe Morillon, called it "a clear provocation by people who are enormously upset by the possibility of peace and determined to remain...
...have been arrested and 39 killed. Militants are also said to be surrendering in unprecedented numbers -- 130 since Jan. 1 -- presumably because they prefer jail to possible death at the hands of the commandos. The military says the 130 are hard-core fighters, a claim many Palestinians dispute. Saleh Abdul Jawad Saleh, a West Bank political scientist who has studied Palestinian fugitives, says most of those who have given themselves up were wanted for lesser offenses, such as throwing rocks or painting nationalistic graffiti. The shooters, he adds, remain at large...
...current probe of Saudi Abdul Raouf Khalil, investigators have complained that when Khalil was first sought by Federal Reserve examiners, the State Department claimed that he either didn't exist or couldn't be found. Knowing that Khalil was a high Saudi intelligence offical and the current liaison to the CIA the investigators advised the Riyadh embassy to "look for him down the hall in the CIA station chief's office." Khalil was quickly located and served with a subpoena...