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...CHAKA FATTAH (D) District 2 (West Philadelphia; Chestnut Hill; Yeadon...
...Fattah swept the 1994 election with 84% of the vote--the widest margin of any new Congressman. In a majority African-American district, running against a Republican, he's favored to do it again. Popular in his district, Fattah was also elected whip of the Congressional Black Caucus...
Their enthusiasm is not shared by Arab laborers. "What choice do I have?" asks Samir Hassan, a mechanic in an Israeli garage in Jerusalem. Economist Abdel Fattah Abu-Shokor of An-Najah University in Nablus predicts that a total ban on Palestinian labor in Israel would raise unemployment from 20% to 55% in the West Bank and from 25% to 60% in Gaza. Says Abu-Shokor: "The Palestinian economy cannot survive without Israel...
...trip to nearby Ethiopia, possibly to secure arms and ammunition, then returned to South Yemen, where he was reported to be assembling a force of 40,000 soldiers and volunteers in the Abyan region, his stronghold to the east of the capital. Rebel radio broadcasts rarely referred to Abdul Fattah Ismail, the former President who was thought to be leading the rebellion, thereby fueling speculation that he had been killed when fighting began two weeks ago. Late in the week, the radio reported that the insurgents had chosen Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas, who had been in Moscow...
...Fattah Rome...