Word: hassanal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arafat was just as eager to comply. On Monday evening, one of his closest advisers, Hani el-Hassan, already was in Egypt. He was soon joined by Abul Abbas, leader of the pro-Arafat faction of the P.L.F. The heavyset Abbas, 40, was born in Haifa and educated in Damascus; a former airline hijacker himself, Abbas rates high on many Western lists of most-wanted terrorists. In 1977, Abbas helped to found the P.L.F. as a breakaway group from the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--General Command...
...want some diversity, but not so much diversity as to make roommates impossible to live with," says Thomas E. Hassan, senior adviser for the Union dorms, who is running the room assignment prooess this summer. Smoking habits, preferred size of room, level of sloppiness, extracurricular interests and other tidbits listed on freshman housing applications receive consideration, Hassan says. Even background records--which include your hometown, college board scores, ethnicity an financial status--will work their way into the process...
...Hassan, who has arranged freshmen in Union dorms for the past three years, says the tricky thing after attaining some diversity is to "make sure people share some interests in common...
Despite all the planning, problems and minor conflicts arise. But Hassan is quick to point out that the fault may not lie with his crew. In some cases, students are not particularly accurate when filling out their housing applications...
...among the few who supported Islamization were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a militant fundamentalist sect banned in many parts of the Arab world. Last week Nimeiri, fearing the Brotherhood's growing power, unexpectedly cracked down on the group, jailing about 150 of its members, including its leader, Hassan al Turabi, 53, who was also stripped of his post as Nimeiri's assistant for foreign affairs...