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...Meanwhile, other activists are taking similar steps. The NAACP has launched "Arrive With Five," a campaign encouraging its members to bring five friends to polling stations. In predominately black Cleveland, Basheer Jones, 23, is bringing voting-rights experts on his popular morning radio show to puncture the assumption that ex-felons can't vote. He is also promoting a rally and parties sponsored by black fraternities intended to get black Ohioans to vote early; the price of admission is a sticker proving that you voted. "We don't want anybody to have a reason to not vote," he says...
...syndicate in 1985 after masterminding a Hollywood-style slaying of its boss, Paul Castellano, with the help of his head honcho, "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Gravano turned state witness and testified against his boss; Gotti got a life term in prison on multiple racketeering and murder charges. DIED. TAHSEEN BASHEER, 77, spokesman for Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat; in London. A staunch believer in peace between the Arab nations and Israel, Basheer was government spokesman during different stages of peace negotiations between Egypt and Israel in the seventies. NOMINATED. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM, 71, father of India...
...Tahseen Basheer, another former CFIA fellow and slated to become ambassador to Egypt when President-elect Reagan assumes office Jan. 20, is vacationing in Cairo before assuming his new post. He arrived after spending three weeks aboard a ship that sailed from Madras, India to Alexandria, Egypt...
...Tahseen Basheer, a former adviser to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, criticized his fellow panelists, saying, "With this kind of rhetoric, we will never reach peace...
...There should be no excuses about peace, no evasions, no delays," Basheer said. "We are not living in a world of suicide--We must overcome this very difficult problem...