Word: eid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week-long festivities of the Moslem sacrificial feast known as Eid-ul-Azha had not yet ended. Suddenly one evening as Pakistanis gathered in their local mosques for prayers an earthquake rumbled across the northern part of the country. Within moments, thousands of buildings collapsed into rubble, and some mountain villages were practically wiped from the map. By the time the tremors finally stopped 24 hours later, at least 5,100 people were dead, and more than 15,000 injured...
...overriding that moderate Arab leaders were wary about even appearing to be against the fedayeen cause. Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry announced that he was commuting the life sentences passed on the eight fedayeen who killed U.S. Diplomats George C. Moore and Cleo A. Noel Jr. and Belgian Guy Eid in a raid on Khartoum (TIME, March 12, 1973). The men are now to serve seven years in the "custody" of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...days later the two American victims of the Black September massacre in Khartoum were buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Sadness over the ugly deaths of Noel, Moore and Belgian Diplomat Guy Eid was worldwide. But amid the sorrow there was some solace that with the coldblooded killings the Palestinian terrorist movement of Black September may have inflicted a serious wound on itself...
...stayed two blocks back for fear of endangering the hostages' lives. President Jaafar Numeiry called his Cabinet into emergency session. Assured by the Cabinet that there would be no attempt to storm the embassy, the terrorists allowed a doctor inside to treat the wounds of Noel and Eid. Then came a long string of demands delivered by telephone...
...terrorists had just been shooting at a light accidentally played on them. But at midnight, a Sudan official called the U.S. Embassy and confirmed the fears of Mrs. Noel and Mrs. Moore, who had been waiting out the horror together: both their husbands were dead. The Belgian hostage, Eid, was apparently shot at the same time, though he died later...