Word: hassan
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American soldiers were back on the streets of Panama last week, called in by President Guillermo Endara to quell a rebellion led by the former chief of Panama's national police. The U.S. troops quickly ended the revolt and turned its leader, Colonel Eduardo Herrera Hassan, over to local authorities. Yet this time there was none of the euphoria that followed the U.S. Army's ouster of General Manuel Noriega almost exactly one year ago. And the incident raised doubts about U.S. efforts to nurture a democratic government capable of coping without American help...
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...
...into dozens of transit camps in Amman. The cash-starved kingdom insists that it cannot cope with the additional tens of thousands still stranded at the border, waiting to cross. "The plight of these people has only evoked the faintest of responses from the world community," complains Crown Prince Hassan, King Hussein's brother...
...most of the refugees, however, nothing could be worse than being trapped in Iraq or Kuwait. "It's all a bloody mess there, with people running about scared as cats on a griddle," reports Mansoor Hassan, 21, a Bangladeshi who was visiting his parents in Kuwait when the invasion started. "The Iraqis treated us like dogs and called us pigs," says an Egyptian laborer who escaped from Kuwait. "They took all my savings and even this month's pay. I have a wife and six children in Cairo, and I will have no work when I return. We will starve...
...Saddam returned to Baghdad in 1963 and started organizing a militia for the Baath Party, which finally succeeded in grabbing power permanently in 1968. Under the nominal leadership of General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, the man who held the real control was his relative Saddam Hussein. Keeping things in the family, Saddam married another relative, Sajida Talfah, the daughter of the officer who had raised...