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...being permitted to return to their homes in Israel or the occupied territories. Among those released was Ahmed Zmurid, who had been serving a life sentence for his participation in a 1968 car bombing in Jerusalem in which 15 people died and more than 50 were injured. Others were Adnan Kleihal and Sudhi Naarani, who were jailed for life in 1975 for planting a bomb in the students' cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Perhaps the best known was Kozo Okamoto, 37, a pro-Palestinian Japanese terrorist who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in an airport massacre...
...Adnan Khashoggi, 48, the jet-about Saudi Arms merchant and investor, along with his brother Essam, last week agreed to pay $8 million for a half-interest in the Utah Jazz basketball team. The Jazz deal caps a string of Khashoggi investments in Salt Lake City. The state's conservative political and social environment appeals to the Khashoggi family, which during the past decade has pumped $77 million into an array of Salt Lake City development projects, including a $600 million downtown office complex called Triad Center...
When they learned of the U.S. charges, the Iraqis were annoyed. "What did the Americans have to say about the slaughter of Iraqi prisoners by the Iranians?" demanded Defense Minister Adnan Khairallah. He pointed out that the U.S. had been "the only state to use nuclear weapons" and had done so on the "pretext of limiting the period of war." He accused the U.S. of trying to curry favor with Iran and blamed the whole controversy on "some Zionist adviser" in Washington who was trying to incite "anti-Iraqi or anti-Arab sentiments." Saddam Hussein also accused...
...rule, the Israelis have left municipal governments alone. Says Ibrahim Adnan, underprefect of the Nabatiyah region: "Frankly, the Israeli troops don't interfere at all in our affairs." But that, to some Lebanese, is precisely the problem. A Lebanese police officer who has not received a paycheck from Beirut since the invasion complains bitterly that the Israelis are not doing enough to restore order. Says an Israeli officer: "We had to find a way not to be a military government, but at the same time to get things done...
...Minister, Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, proudly proclaimed that his peacemaking efforts had been "crowned with success." He announced that Syria had agreed to a gradual withdrawal of the troops it had dispatched to the Jordanian border. Officials in Amman, though, were initially skeptical. Said Jordanian Minister of Information Adnan Abu Odeh: "We will make our judgment known when we see the last Syrian soldiers withdrawing from their positions." Then, in a further effort to heal the breach between the two antagonistic countries, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia invited both Jordan's King Hussein and Syria's President...