Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief of the national guard showed me a collection of about 7,000 old weapons straight out of the cavern of Ali Baba. He wanted Browning light machine guns, which I managed to get out of Canadian surplus stocks, and we clinched the deal." The Panamanian antiques were sold to U.S. gun collectors, and Cummings was launched as an international gun barterer. He recycled 26 Vampire jets from Sweden to the Dominican Republic, swapped field equipment for Guatemalan arms, sold 80,000 machine guns to Finland and got a cache of old collectibles in return...
Takfir wa Hijra is only one of an unknown number of fanatical Islamic groups that permeate wide sections of Egyptian society. Says Political Scientist Ali E. Hillal Dessouki of Cairo University: "My hunch is that there are many groups of ten or 15 people, organized into very small cells. They are clandestine, secretive, underground and not public. They are certainly amassing weapons...
Prune Minister Sultan Ali Keshtmand, 47, is the No. 2 man in the regime, having recently taken over the prime ministership from Karmal. He is a longtime Communist and a mem ber of the pro-Soviet faction that gained dominance after the invasion...
...Santa Fe could turn out to be Kuwait's most successful diversification move yet. The nation's government-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp., which is directed by Sheik Ali Khalifa al-Sabah, the country's Oil Minister, already operates a fleet of more than a dozen supertankers. Earlier this year, the firm entered into joint ventures with U.S. companies, giving it a $185 million share in a Hawaiian oil refinery as well as participation in a U.S. oil exploration group. Kuwait, though, has not always been able to buy its way into the American market.Its 1980 attempt...
Korchnoi, a burly, voluble Russian defector, arrived from a Swiss health retreat accompanied by an entourage Muhammad Ali would envy. Spokesman Emanuel Sztein sported a Solidarity button and passed out postcards demanding that Korchnoi's son Igor, 22, be released from a two-year prison sentence for draft evasion and that Korchnoi's wife Bella be allowed to join him. Korchnoi's party also included an American yoga instructor, who sat in the first row at the opening game last week wearing an orange sari...