Word: abu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past seven months, a major goal of the Palestinian guerrilla movement has been the release of Abu Daud, an Al-Fatah official, from a Jordanian prison. Last February he was arrested on charges of plotting against King Hussein's regime. A month later, a band of terrorists killed three Western diplomats in Khartoum in a gruesome attempt to force Daud's release. Early this month, another group of guerrillas threatened to throw hostages out of a plane over Saudi Arabia if Daud was not set free. Both times Hussein stood firm. But last week, with nobody holding...
...French authorities rushed heavily armed special police to surround the two-story embassy in Paris' Passy district, the gunmen announced that they would release their hostages only if Jordan would free Abu Daud, a former high-ranking leader of Al-Fatah who is serving a life sentence in a Jordanian prison for allegedly plotting to overthrow King Hussein's regime. Jordan categorically refused.* The gunmen then temporarily shelved their insistence on Abu Daud's release and asked instead for a plane and crew to fly them to an Arab capital - preferably Algiers, where the Summit Conference...
...pushed four others, all Saudis, onto the plane and took off. After flying to Kuwait, where they exchanged the Caravelle for a Kuwait Airways Boeing 707 capable of flying 6,200 miles, they headed for Saudi Arabia. Circling over Riyadh, the Saudi capital, they warned that unless Jordan released Abu Daud they would "throw out the hostages one after the other...
...last March, when guerrillas who took over the Saudi Arabian embassy in the Sudan demanded freedom for Abu Daud. In retaliation, those terrorists killed one Belgian and two American diplomats who were being held as hostages...
Stretching 500 miles southeastward from the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a narrow strait that doglegs around the tiny tip of Oman, the Persian Gulf may be the world's most valuable and vulnerable waterway. At such desert-edge ports as Ras Tanura, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dhahran and Kharg Island, scores of supertankers congregate like wallowing whales to suck up crude oil. Daily they plow through the gulfs warm waters and out through the Strait of Hormuz carrying some 20 million bbl. of oil-almost half of the non-Communist world's consumption...