Word: abu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the currently icy relations between the U.S. and Israel, Washington recently sided with Jerusalem in a little-noticed case that has stirred a furor of protest in the Arab world. Ziad Abu Eain, 23, a Palestinian Arab and citizen of Jordan, was extradited from the U.S. to Israel two weeks ago to stand trial on charges that he set off a bomb in the Israeli resort city of Tiberias in May 1979 that killed two youths and injured 36 others. Abu Eain (rhymes with plain) and his supporters have fought a 2½-year battle in U.S. courts against...
...When Defense Minister General Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala signaled me to go away, I told him to get out of the way. I don't want you,' I said. 'I want this dog, this tyrant Sadat...
William Casey, the current director of the agency, has decided not to follow their example. He has kept control of his investments, which may be worth as much as $3.4 million. Among his holdings: more than $250,000 in Superior Oil Co., which has contracts to drill oil in Abu Dhabi and mine platinum in South Africa and is negotiating to sell gas in Thailand...
...area of Upper Egypt: First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki el-Istambuli, who commanded an artillery battery, and two former lieutenants and a reserve officer. As a legitimate participant in the parade, Khaled had ordered other troopers off their truck and substituted the assassins. According to Defense Minister Abdel Halim Abu Gha-zala, the four had purchased on the black market the grenades and guns they used in the attack. "It was very primitive, but successful," said Abu Ghazala. "At this point we do not believe they are part of a larger group...
...life. "I can never lose my way because I know that I have living roots in the soil of my village," he wrote in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of Identity. One of 13 children, Sadat was born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu el Kom. His father was a military hospital clerk, his mother an illiterate Sudanese. He spent his early years working in the fields and attending the village kuttab, an Islamic school where he learned to read and write and studied the Koran. It was the beginning of the lifelong religious...