Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was perhaps a touch of contrivance in the drama of Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Lutfi flying home last week from London, where he had met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to preside over a midnight Cabinet meeting to approve the Taba agreement. But it was a welcome change from the grim tales of hijacking, kidnaping and wanton murder that so regularly emanate from the region. If nothing else, the Taba agreement and the Alexandria summit demonstrated that even in the Middle East, common sense can sometimes...
...horrifying," Anatolia quoted Istanbul's deputy governor, Hasan Ali Ozer, as saying...
Iran's conflicts at home and abroad have only inflamed popular zeal for Khomeini's Islamic revolution and its militant embrace of Muslim fundamentalism. When Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered his latest call to arms last week in the northeastern city of Mashad, thousands of cheering young men seemed ready to lay down their lives for the cause of their homeland. "Every day," reports a Western visitor to Tehran, "there are parades for people going to the front. People are still chanting, 'Death to America! Death to Saddam!' Death to just about everything...
...station, she turned to a group of onlookers and scornfully declared, "So, you see that leading a rally is not permitted in Pakistan. Today the government is coming out with its true colors." Thus was Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto, 33, the popular daughter of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, arrested in a sudden return of repression by President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. It was a backward step after what had seemed like a gradual revival of democracy in Pakistan this year...
...Ali: Fear Eats Soul Tues...