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...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 »

...even outshot the Big Red by one. However, things went downhill from there: Larry Tobin hit the post twice within fifteen seconds early in the second stanza; and Cornell was off and running. Brock Tredway notched his 16th tally of the year at 12:38, and Karl Habib chimed in with a contribution at 4:04 to widen the margin...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Big Red Melts Icemen, 6-1, With Aid From Unruly Crowd | 2/21/1980 | See Source »

...Congressmen turned up at the FBI'S rented house on Washington's W Street, often with Criden at their side, to learn about the largesse of the second FBI sheik, Yasser Habib, the one who was hoping to find asylum in the U.S. Habib welcomed his visitors under lights so bright that the lawmakers squinted. These lights had been installed to facilitate the secret videotaping, but the sheik's aides explained that he kept them bright because he missed the blazing sun of his homeland. To each Congressman, the pitch was the same: the sheik feared trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Stings Congress | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...House's most erratic legislators. Kelly apparently learned of the available cash from a chain starting with a convicted stock swindler and leading through an accountant and an East Coast mobster, all three of whom had expected to acquire $50,000 each from Sheik Habib. Only Kelly, however, received a delivery. The cameras in the W Street house caught him stuffing $25,000-200 $100 bills and 250 $20 bills-into his suit, coat and pants pockets and asking: "Does it show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Stings Congress | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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