Word: abu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-story stone-and-plaster house stood in Jerusalem's Abu Saud quarter, named for Arafat's maternal ancestors, who bore the title Maqib el-Ashraf, or scions of the nobles. It was one of a small cluster of homes located close to the Wailing Wall. Since occupying the city in 1967, the Israelis have bulldozed one Arab section to create a broad plaza, and their archaeologists have made extensive excavations to uncover more of the wall, dating from the Herodian period. Recently, the excavating reached the foundations of the Abu Saud house...
SPECTRUM (NET, 8-8:30 p.m.).* "Abu Simbel" tells how the ancient temples of Ramses II were saved from the rising waters of the Nile River which rose during construction of the Aswan High...
Egypt's few Jews are steadily harassed. There are only about 1,000 left, and it is believed that all heads of families, and younger males as well, have been jammed into the Abu Za-abal prison camp near Ismailia. Crushed together in tiny cells, they are allowed no visitors, are often beaten and poorly fed. In Libya, 20 Jews were slain by angry mobs in the wake of the Six-Day War, and the suddenly concerned authorities allowed about 3,500 to leave. Fewer than 1,000 remain, and a good many of these are reported...
...making his contacts, Hughes had the assistance of Abu Said, a stringer who began filing to TIME 18 years ago. His connections were unfailing, but the most: vital contact for our cover story proved easier than seemed likely, Hughes reported...
...fedayeen taxi driver (and gave him $20), to take me to the 'secret headquarters' of Abu Ammar [code name of Arafat]. To my surprise, he did. Four hours later, by an olive grove, I watched the Fatah leader transact business with two dozen runners, shake the hands of wounded soldiers, and shared a slit trench with...