Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heading toward West Beirut. There many waited at a sporting center for relocation in empty Beirut apartments and villages in southern Lebanon. Mostly they were the very old, the very young or women. "We ran out of water, out of food, out of everything," said one elderly man, Abdullah Youssif Joumah, as he wiped away tears with his white kaffiyeh. Said another: "The boys who were fighting, may God rest their souls, were all killed...
...Erich, in all his savage fury, is nothing to compare with Abdullah the Butcher. The Butcher was found in the jungles of the Sudan by a American explorer, who came across him battling wild mountain lions. Realizing the man's fantastic potential as a professional wrestler, they sent out a party to capture him. Although few in the party survived, the Butcher was captured, and shipped to America in a cage. Many of his opponents wished he had remained therein. Abdullah has been photographed attacking his adversaries with the severed leg of a sheep, with metal pipes he must have...
...Middle East conflict-were exhilarated. They saw both actions as proof that the industrialized West was vulnerable to collective pressures from the poor nations. "For the first time since the rise of Western capitalism, a decision affecting the world economy was taken outside the West," says Ismail Sabry Abdullah, director of Egypt's Institute of National Planning...
Foreign financial help alone cannot solve the poor's economic problems. "No nation, no matter how rich, can develop another country," says Egypt's Ismail Sabry Abdullah. There is much, in fact, that the developing world must do for itself...
...Gandhi herself spent a five-day working holiday in Kashmir, talking politics with Sheik Abdullah, chief minister of the state, and visiting Indian troops in the border areas opposite China and Pakistan. Government officials, who had been stung by previous criticism from Washington, were clearly pleased by Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan's talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Ford's remark. "We will welcome him here," said Mrs. Gandhi, "and he can see for himself...