Word: haj
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...Fatah faction and must crack down on renegades. To do so, he is quietly working with Arafat, who still controls much of the Palestinian security apparatus. When senior Palestinian security officials met in Bethlehem just before Israel handed over control of the city, the gathering was headed by Haj Ismail Jabr, chief of the National Security Forces in the West Bank and an Arafat underling, officials who were there tell TIME. Jabr warned he would brook no violence against Israel. "We're going to apply the law," he said. "Even if you see me running a red light, issue...
...LEON URIS, 78, robust novelist of war's glories and ravages; in Shelter Island, N.Y. After serving as a Marine on Guadalcanal, he scored with best sellers set on the front lines of World War II (Battle Cry), the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Mila 18), Israel (Exodus) and Palestine (The Haj). He also wrote his own epitaph; his tombstone will read: AMERICAN SOLDIER. JEWISH WRITER...
...undertaken since the U.S. increased the pressure on him to clean house three months ago. He blocked attempts last week by his new Interior Minister to fire seven senior police officers. And despite an earlier promise to remove the head of the National Security forces in the West Bank, Haj Ismail Jabr, whom Palestinian officials have accused of corruption, Arafat now wants simply to change Jabr's job and make him head of the police force, aides...
...across Asia, risk awareness is thin, and no pan-Asian transport body exists to call for precautionary measures, as the European Commission did in January. During the Haj season when tens of thousands go to Mecca, Pakistan International Airways routinely refits aircraft to shoehorn in as many seats as possible. In China, Li Ru, spokeswoman for Air China, puts her faith in passenger size. "We are shorter and smaller than Westerners, so we're less uncomfortable in airplane seats," she says. For those airlines that are taking action, the mood is aggressively defensive. Following the WHO conference, the Association...