Word: hanna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hanna Nasser, president of Bir Zeit University, was expelled from the West Bank by Israeli military authorities for "unspecified charges"a fate suffered by some 1,500 West Bank Palestinians. Nasser, 44, was taken in handcuffs from his home in the middle of the night, driven to the Lebanese border in a military van and tossed out of the vehicle. A physicist by training, he conducts public relations for the university from Amman. Nasser worries about what effect the Israeli occupation will have on younger Palestinians. "The Israelis should realize they have created a hothouse for young radicals...
That same week, top hurdler Karen Gray stumbled while leaving practice and also sprained her ankle. Then high-jumper Hanna Cox, vacationing in Florida, decided to take up wrestling with her sister's boyfriend, Hunt said. Her grappling career shortlived, she wound up with a crushed sternum and some broken ribs...
August 1977. Tongsun Park, a Korean businessman, was indicted for bribery and later testified that he had made payoffs to 31 legislators. Eighteen-month congressional investigations of "Koreagate" led to little action. The only man actually imprisoned was former Congressman Richard Hanna, 65, California Democrat, who was sentenced to a 2½-year prison term. Otto Passman, 79, Louisiana Democrat, was brought to trial but acquitted. Charles H. Wilson, John McFall and Edward Roybal, all California Democrats, were reprimanded by the House, but Wilson and Roybal are still there...
Ironically, a warning comes from a dead German paratrooper. Emptying the enemy's pockets, Mowat finds an unmailed letter: "I don't expect to see Hanna and the children this year. The Führer has ordered us to hold Rome at all costs. This shouldn't be too hard if you have any idea of the kind of country here. It is made for defense and the Tommies will have to chew their way through us inch by inch, and we will surely make hard chewing for them...