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...prolonged one, although Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini pledged to fight until "the government of heathens in Iraq topples." Mediation efforts by the U.N. were rebuffed, but the Conference of Islamic Nations dispatched a "goodwill mission" consisting of Pakistani President Zia ul-Haq and Tunisia's Habib Chatti, the organization's secretary-general, to the combatant capitals. No matter how long the struggle continued or how soon it ended, the shock waves had already reached out from the gulf. They included concerns about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Persian Gulf | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...cooperate, the Arab sponsors retreated, and the session instead turned into another broad diplomatic offensive against Israel, the U.S. and Camp David. Farouk Qaddoumi, the Palestine Liberation Organization's spokesman, declared that the Camp David accords "constitute a conspiracy against justice and peace." Islamic Conference Secretary-General Habib Chatti of Tunisia raised the possibility of suspending Israel's U.N. membership "if it continued to ignore the decisions of the organization and refused to evacuate the occupied Arab territories." For his part, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum denounced the emergency session as a "grotesque farce" and called the P.L.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Mood of Defiance | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

Even as Soviet troops were crushing the Muslim rebellion in Afghanistan, the ministers in Islamabad set up a committee -made up of the organization's Tunisian secretary-general Habib Chatti, Iran's Ghotbzadeh and Pakistan's foreign affairs adviser Agha Shahi-to seek a "comprehensive solution" to the crisis through consultations with the concerned parties. The initiative, whose success seems problematical, reflected the delegates' desire for concrete action after the tough language of the earlier conference had failed to produce any results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHWEST ASIA: Muslim Ministers Blast the U.S. | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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