Word: abu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalist at the scene of the fighting near Basra; he had been in the border area for two or three days. Says Jordan: "There was the odd shelling, and gradually it got closer and heavier. There was also shelling in the vicinity of Basra and the neighboring town of Abu al Khasib. It was amazing to see how people just carried on in the midst of it all." Meanwhile, Gart went to Jerusalem and then to Cairo, where, with TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, he interviewed high-level Egyptian officials before returning to Jordan to talk with government...
...says. "If a sudden and devastating attack on West Beirut began, we feared correspondents there might be pinned down or cut off, in which case I would try to cover the battle." As the Israeli bombing and shelling increased and electricity and water supplies faltered, TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish moved the bureau's office to the Commodore Hotel, whose staff of been making extraordinary efforts to meet the needs of hundreds of encamped journalists...
...reinforcements into Lebanon. P.L.O. guerrillas, operating in and around the coastal towns of Tyre, Sidon and Damur, mounted a stubborn defense. Armed Palestinians and left-wing militia were holed up in thousands of apartments in west Beirut, vowing to resist to the death. Warned P.L.O. Spokesman Bassam Abu Sherif: "They can raid and shell Beirut until they destroy this city, but the Israelis will never enter Beirut. We will fight street to street, house to house, and we will defeat Begin in Beirut." Indeed, the P.L.O. had put up stiffer resistance at many points than the Israelis may have expected...
What both Abu-Loghod and Pattullo's opponents full to realize is that nothing can be move dangerous to a University community than the exclusion of competing views. Except an educational issues, universities need not--and probably should not--have political ideologies, like support or oppositions to the PLO. They should, however, safeguard one set of values--that of pluralism, discourse and toleration. The gestures of the HJLSA and the GSA in trying to silence their critics, would undermine those values...
...HJLSA eventually settled on the proper approach, once it became clear that the Law School wasn't going to rescind its invitation to Abu-Loghod. Some 150 people protested outside the building an which she spoke, some loudly criticizing the PLO's tacties not Abu-Loghod's right to speak. That shows of strength probably did more to bolster the students position than excluding the rival speaker...