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...prosperity. Yeltsin has failed, and the West must pay the price for backing someone who did not share the pains and frustrations of his people. Democracy in Russia has produced only chaos and confusion. The people of Russia are willing to trade their democracy for a loaf of bread. AMMAR ZEYAD SALAH North York, Ontario Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1996 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...clear from the start how Ammar Shawa, 12, died. His family was posing for photographs with newly arrived Palestinian soldiers in Jericho when one of them allowed Ammar's 13-year-old brother to handle a loaded AK-47 rifle. It went off, accidentally, and the bullet shattered the younger boy's head. Immediately, local activists of the Palestine Liberation Organization put out a story to townsfolk that withdrawing Israeli soldiers had deliberately left the rifle behind to cause an accident. Later they said that an Arab collaborating with Israel had given the boy the gun, and then that ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Guard | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

When President Habib Bourguiba married Wassila Bent Muhammad Ben Ammar in 1962, the Tunisian press called it a "love match." Over the years, the pair had frequent clashes, after which she would depart the presidential palace for extended sulks abroad. One such absence was expected to end early this month on the occasion of Bourguiba's 83rd birthday, but Wassila, now 74, failed to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunisia: Bourguibas Go Splitsville | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

Unidentified assassins gunned down the Libyan Ambassador to Italy, Ammar el Taghazi, last month. More recently, two radical terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting on a Paris street of Gholam Ali Oveissi, who commanded Iran's army under the Shah. The next day the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, was slain as he left his Paris home. Italy is not alone in serving as a killing ground for Middle Eastern vendettas, and the Red Brigades, specialists in death, may have found new life through ties to the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Alive and Well | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Rayond G. Ammar '53, one of Law's former roommates, yesterday said, "It was clear that his life was going to be in the Catholic Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Named New Archbishop | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

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