Word: abu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to an Arafat lieutenant, all but about 50 of the mutineers have returned to the Fatah fold. Of these 50, all but Abu Mousa and four other officers who have disobeyed direct orders will still be permitted to return to the ranks, supposedly with no questions asked. Abu Mousa and the four others are not likely to get off so easily...
Arafat's relatively moderate stance is also threatened by a group outside the coalition: an elusive band of guerrillas led by Abu Nidal, who broke away from the P.L.O. in 1974 after angrily accusing Arafat of growing soft toward Israel. So strained are their relations that Arafat and Abu Nidal have publicly ordered each other killed. Abu Nidal and his group obviously are quite capable of mayhem: besides admitting to Sartawi's murder, they took responsibility for trying to kill Israeli Ambassador to Britain Shlomo Argov last June. The P.L.O. blames Abu Nidal's group for assassinating...
...other archaeological rescue of such magnitude had been attempted since UNESCO's raising of the Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel in 1966 to protect it from the floodwaters of the Aswan dam. Consultants from a variety of disciplines, from architecture to soil mechanics, concluded that halfway measures would no longer do; a major rebuilding had to be undertaken. To arrest the "stone cancer," as experts call it, the temple's entire middle section was removed, a job comparable to taking out the center of a layer cake without causing a collapse. With the help of a computer contributed...
...prestigious newspaper al Ahram called for an international tribunal "on the lines of Nuremberg" to investigate the massacre, while the mass-circulation al Akbar declared that the incident had demonstrated that Israel is "militarist, fascist and terrorist." Along the same line, Egypt's Defense Minister, Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, called on Arab countries to develop a "joint strategy" in order to offset Israel's increasing military superiority. It was quite a departure from the spirit of Camp David...
...opposition groups inside Lebanon. Following the 1975-76 civil war, which divided Beirut into Christian and Muslim sectors, he visited West Beirut regularly to talk with his Muslim counterparts. During negotiations for the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organization from West Beirut last summer, Amin met quietly with Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s military commander. Born in the predominantly Christian village of Bikfaya, in the mountains east of Beirut, Amin was groomed from boyhood to become a political leader. He attended Jesuit-run elementary and secondary schools, and went on to receive a law degree in 1965 from...