Word: hosni
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...hand for this display was an impressive lineup of dignitaries, including Jordan's King Hussein, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and the Crown Princes of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the major gulf states. They had come to Muscat, the capital of Oman, to mark the 15th anniversary of Sultan Qaboos bin Said's accession to power and to celebrate his transformation of Oman into a prosperous nation courted by the West for its strategic location at the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the non-Communist...
Already the postmortems were under way in Malta, Cairo and various Western capitals. Malta's Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici defended his country's long-standing policy of refusing to refuel a hijacked plane unless terrorists first released all passengers aboard. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused the hijackers of being members of a Palestinian terrorist group opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and closely aligned with Mubarak's enemy, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Though Mubarak did not mention the group by name, he seemed to be referring to the Abu Nidal faction, which has previously taken responsibility...
...Egypt, meanwhile, the case of Policeman Suleiman Khater, 24, caused further embarrassment to the government of President Hosni Mubarak. On Oct. 5, Khater shot and killed seven Israeli tourists in the Sinai, including four children. Khater was convicted by a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment, but last week he was found dead in his room at a prison hospital. An autopsy concluded that he had committed suicide by hanging himself, but after demonstrations broke out on university campuses and in the victim's hometown, a court ordered a further investigation...
...decision in 2003 to give up on a second U.N. resolution authorizing force in Iraq speaks to that readiness. His “cowboy diplomacy,” however, seems to be working. Iraq has held free elections. Syria has removed its occupying force from Lebanon. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has pledged to hold multi-party elections in the near future. And last week, Bush took advantage of his trip to Eastern Europe to spead his pro-democracy message there. In the first year of his second term, America’s 43rd president appears to have found his legacy...
...unusually frosty winter, but the political indicators suggest that the country may be in for a long, hot summer. The presidential election scheduled for September is generating more interest and tension than ever, thanks to plans to amend the constitution to allow opposition candidates to run directly against President Hosni Mubarak. And even as Mubarak and his challengers wage what is certain to be a contentious political campaign, terrorists have struck in Cairo three times in less than a month...