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...voice choked with emotion, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel delivered a farewell address to his countrymen last week. "I leave the presidency today worried and filled with anxiety," he declared. "Today should have been a festival in which we rejoiced over the election of a new President. But the people of war were stronger than peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Religious Differences | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

After losing his first set, 6-3, Ravi Kumar rallied to take the second set, 7-6. In the third and deciding set, Amin Khoury fought off Kumar to win the set, 6-4, and the match...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Brown Buries Netmen; Bruins Surprise, 8-1 | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

...envoys at Geneva sign this week, it will bring to an end Moscow's major military involvement of the past 20 years. Soviet troops invaded in December 1979 in order to replace one Communist leader, Hafizullah Amin, with Babrak Karmal, another Communist but one more amenable to Soviet thinking on many issues. Soviet troops quickly became enmeshed in fighting with the budding resistance movement. Moscow has tried to defeat the rebels with everything from carpet bombing to lightning commando attacks, all to no avail. Soviet offers of bribes, cease-fires and amnesties have also failed to quell the mujahedin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: An End in Sight? | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...those in need, the Sudanese are also enduring a drought and are rapidly losing patience. Earlier this year Ethiopian refugees streaming into the Sudanese border town of Kassala were attacked by mobs. "We have been involved in refugee problems since the Congo crisis of the 1960s," says Al-Amin Abdul Latif, Sudan's Ambassador to Egypt. "Enough is enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine Hunger stalks Ethiopia once again - and aid groups fear the worst | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Harvard's Roger Berry fought off a rally from Amin Khoury to capture the B-flight singles, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 at the Harvard-hosted New England Championships held over the weekend at Beren Courts. And freshman Ravi Krishna Kumar recorded a 6-3, 7-6 victory over teammate John Stinebaugh in the D division singles finals...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Tennis | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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