Word: bashir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise. The armed forces had demonstrated unusual restraint during the Prime Minister's ineffectual reign, which neither advanced a political settlement in the savage six-year-old civil war nor dealt with the country's vicious poverty and famine. Speaking for the rebellious forces, Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed el Bashir said el Mahdi had "wasted the country's time and squandered its energies with much talk and policy vacillation...
...ABOUT GOLF? Amin Gemayel is a man in search of a purpose. After his six- year term as President of Lebanon ended in September, Gemayel left the country because of pressure from the Phalangist militia once controlled by his murdered brother Bashir. Gemayel is now staying in Paris, where he receives visitors in a friend's well-guarded luxury apartment. A wealthy man, Gemayel talks vaguely of moving to the U.S. and taking English-language courses at Harvard...
...weeks ago, Israeli soldiers entered a shabby camp dwelling, where some of the family now live, and took away Hamad's son Bashir, 26. Last week the Israeli government announced that Bashir, who was to have been married on Jan. 22, would be deported...
...Bashir Hamad was one of nine Palestinians chosen for expulsion in the wake of the month-long rebellion that has swept through the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank. Though seven have already spent time in prison, six for involvement in terrorism, the Israeli army accused only three of directly fomenting the recent riots; the rest are asserted to be "hard-core agitators." Hamad, though not cited for involvement in the current unrest, is accused of "organizing disturbances and participating in them" in his role as a leader of the Shabiba, a young men's group with close ties...
...have filed appeals, the first step in a procedure that can take weeks. Meanwhile, some moderate Palestinian leaders talked of a campaign of civil disobedience. Few thought the scheme would succeed. But neither did anyone think that Israel's expulsions would stem the violence. Said Tayshir Hamad, brother of Bashir: "How many Palestinians have been deported since 1967? Thousands. But nothing has changed...