Word: ismail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blaming South Yemen for the murder, North Yemen immediately broke off relations. President Robaye Ah', however, had nothing to do with the assassination. The man behind the bomb, Western and Arab observers suspect, may have been Robaye Ali's longtime rival, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 38, an ardently pro-Soviet member of South Yemen's Presidential Council...
Scarcely were relations with the North broken when South Yemenite "People's Militia" and troops loyal to Ismail attacked the presidential palace in Aden and overwhelmed Robaye Ali's army guard. Ismail was left in control after the hapless President was shot by a firing squad...
Robaye Ali and Ismail had bitterly differed on recent policy issues. Ismail opposed unification unless the North turned Marxist. He also approved the strong influence of Moscow and Havana on South Yemen. Robaye Ali wanted to keep Aden's diplomatic options more open; seeking better relations with the West, he sent "warm greetings" to Jimmy Carter...
...urgings of Khan's close friend, film producer Ismail Merchant, ultimately convinced him to come to the U.S. Merchant was helping Bloomingdale's department stores' president Marvin S. Traub '47 organize a series of Indian cultural events in the U.S., and Khan says, "I finally gave in this time because Ismail was so keen, and assured me that my whole family could come and that I could stay with families in quiet places...
...death is a loss to understanding," wrote Editor Harold Evans in the Sunday Times, where Holden spent twelve of his 24 years as a journalist. Evans dispatched five reporters to the Middle East to look into Holden's death. In Cairo, Egyptian Interior Minister Nabawy Ismail took charge of the case at the insistence of President Anwar Sadat. Neither Egyptian officials nor Holden's colleagues know why he was killed. But most people familiar with the case agree on one point: the motive was probably not robbery...