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...more or less direct result of the initial crackdown, many first-years, some asking for heavy drinks, started showing up at parties in the houses. Because upperclass students' parties are unlikely to be shut down unless they are blasting music after 1:00 a.m., this turn of events still allows first-years ready access to alcohol. Even though the majority of the students in the houses are still underage, this situation provides a convenient dodge for the University. For students here, the law might become another ignored Puritan ordinance...
...college campuses in 1979. Several times, Abouhalima's friends were rounded up by authorities. Mahmoud Abdel Shafi, an Egyptian lawyer who represents Islamic militants, remembers that Abouhalima occasionally came to him in 1980, at age 20, to get help for friends who had been arrested. "There was a crackdown on Muslim youths who were trying to remain steadfast in their faith," says Shafi. "Mahmud was not planting bombs. He was concerned about what was happening. He simply took it upon himself to try to help those who were in prison...
...Islamic intellectuals, clerics and fundamentalists who opposed him. One week after Abouhalima departed, militants killed the Egyptian President. Meanwhile, in Munich, Abouhalima sought political asylum, claiming that he faced persecution in Egypt because of his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist party that was then facing a harsh crackdown...
Many health experts who find the ambitious scheme too good to be true wonder why the First Lady's task force is overlooking the potential windfall that would result from a crackdown on fraud. The Administration insists that fraud will eventually be targeted. "It really is going to be a priority," says a White House health spokesman. The government, he says, may impose "new criminal statutes to combat fraud...
Four people were killed and at least 15 injured in an attempt to assassinate Egypt's Interior Minister, Hassan al-Alfi, who has led a crackdown on Islamic militants. Al-Alfi's car was rocked by a bomb not far from Cairo's busy Tahrir Square. Islamic Jihad, the group that killed President Anwar Sadat in 1981, took responsibility. Muslim fundamentalists have waged a violent two-year campaign to replace the Western-leaning government of President Hosni Mubarak with an Islamic regime...