Word: farouk
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...There will be total Arab coordination," said Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa...
Even the most fiery hard-liners attending the five-day meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers last week spoke with gloomy resignation. "There is a new reality -- international, regional and Palestinian," said Farouk Kaddoumi, the Palestine Liberation Organization's foreign minister. That reality, most of the delegates agreed, is one in which the Palestinian people can no longer look either to Moscow or to Arab states for strong political and financial support...
...effect of the pollution on weather patterns could be even more calamitous. Last week Farouk El-Baz, director of Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing, proposed a new theory of how the oil fires could hurt millions of people by affecting life-giving monsoons in July and August. El- Baz, who just completed a research trip to the gulf region, derives his ideas in part from an earlier analysis he did of the impact of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Soil stirred up by that conflict doubled the intensity and frequency of the shamal sandstorms...
...their families, refusing to accept the alms from them that earn the donor merit in a future life, or to participate in weddings and funerals. The boycott stirred anxiety among the troops. "Most of the young soldiers come from villages where monks are held in high respect," says Omar Farouk, a Burmese Muslim living in Bangkok...
...feels threatened by the recent Syrian deployment in its stronghold, Beirut's southern suburbs. But given the importance Damascus attaches to its relations with Iran, especially in the midst of the effort to isolate Iraq, the Syrians are unlikely to turn on Hizballah yet. Last week Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa dampened speculation that some of the British captives were to be released soon, saying such a development was unlikely...