Word: anware
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolstered by their religious zeal-and, more practically, by a flow of arms and supplies from abroad-they are grimly determined to rid their homeland of the hated invader. "The Islamic faith is the force behind our jihad [holy war]," says Rebel Unit Commander Mohammed Anwar. "If we thought this was an ordinary battle, we could not fight the Soviets...
...Kalb, since Schmidt speaks English well and can be "irritable and irritating." Kalb also finds Menachem Begin fascinating because "he says what he feels." Interesting historical question: Would the Middle East have been different, at least in American eyes, had Yasser Arafat been as personally appealing and articulate as Anwar Sadat...
...Guido Goldman, to wine and dine the evening away at New York City's Pierre Hotel last week, the 400 guests included such luminaries as former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, former President Gerald Ford, Secretary of State George Shultz and the widows of the Shah of Iran, Anwar Sadat, Lyndon Johnson and Nelson Rockefeller. Asked how he felt about getting older, Kissinger remained loyal to his generation. "When I was young, I thought people who were 60 were of another species," said the new sexagenarian. "Now I think the young...
...controversial as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was alive, he has become no less so a year and a half after his assassination. In a new memoir, his disillusioned onetime adviser Muhammed Hassanein Heikal contends that Sadat had a humble-beginnings complex that caused him to live inordinately lavishly. The author says that Sadat popped a couple of vodkas daily despite his Islamic faith's liquor prohibition. The Egyptian government last month banned import of the book. Anwar's widow Jehan Sadat, 49, has not commented publicly on Heikal's charges, but she will provide a portrait...
...foiled any chance of progress last week by refusing to approve official Jordanian participation in the talks. And Jordan's King Hussein, virtually held hostage in his own land by the intimidating presence of Palestinian guerrillas, would rather not join the ranks of the martyrs--men like Sartawi and Anwar Sadat, for example, who dared to break with the PLO leadership and pain dearly for their apostasy...