Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend on the Central Committee staff also remarked to me that Sadat should go "one way or another." In a short time, however, the option vanished: Sadat moved against his domestic opposition, arresting his Vice President, Ali Sabry, whom we favored, and six other Cabinet members, and eventually charging them with high treason...
...feeling sick, one of his three guards escorted him to the lavatory. The prisoner emerged brandishing a snub-nosed handgun. He disarmed his guards--two of whom had black belts in karate--and ordered the pilot to fly the American Airlines DC-10 to Cuba. Thus Ishmail Muslim Ali, 37, formerly known as Ishmael La Beet, once again made headlines as the Virgin Islands' most notorious criminal...
...Ali sent shock waves through the Virgin Islands in 1972 when he and four accomplices mowed down eight people at a golf course in St. Croix. Because of the Virgin Islands' inadequate prisons, he was jailed at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa. He had returned to the Virgin Islands two months ago to settle an old legal matter...
...Ali was not in handcuffs during his return flight; American Airlines, among others, does not permit such restraints because it considers them unsafe in an emergency. Law-enforcement officials believe Ali's gun was planted in the restroom by an accomplice, probably before takeoff. Once the plane landed in Havana, Cuban officials took away the hijacker. A few hours later, the plane was back on its way to New York; there were no injuries. The U.S. has asked Cuba to return Ali, but the Castro government has not extradited a hijacker since...
...endangering the lives of all the hostages on board. And without the direct cooperation of Iranian officials, no outside power was likely to intervene to end the deadlock by military means. In an effort to pin the blame on Kuwait, Iranian radio reported last week that Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said Iran was ready to "bring about a military solution," but Kuwait refused to approve the plan...