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...right to speak out against the fighting seems a luxury to many these days. Ismail Ahmed, director of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, reports that a major Arab group in Detroit "told me they're going to support the President, that that's the only way they can be safe. I said, 'But you don't believe what you're saying.' They said, 'That's the only way we can be safe.' " In Wellesley, Mass., a woman of Iraqi descent who works at Harvard as a computer designer used to speak out at neighborhood meetings...
...Holtz told Lyght that if he came to Notre Dame he would be part of a national-championship team. "I looked deep into his eyes, and I knew he was telling the truth," says Lyght. Holtz also persuaded quarterback Tony Rice, tailback Ricky Watters and flanker Raghib ("Rocket") Ismail, players who have been crucial to the Irish success, to enroll at Notre Dame. Not that Notre Dame, with its mystique and a virtual farm team of Catholic high schools providing talent, needs additional help on the recruiting front. Says Beano Cook, the acerbic college football analyst for the ESPN television...
King Hussein escaped personal blame, but Rifai was widely faulted. According + to Professor Ismail Abdul Rahman, an economist at the University of Jordan, the government's "fatal mistake" was avoiding action for years, then trying to do too much too fast...
...other hand, against 0-8 Rice last Saturday, Notre Dame dazzled with a 54-11 victory. After Rice scored early in the first quarter, the Irish quickly answered with four touchdowns on their first four possessions. Junior fullback Anthony Johnson rushed for two of Notre Dame's seven TDs; Ismail scored two others, remarkably, by returning kickoffs...
Recruiting is another Holtz specialty. He signed up twelve of the top 100 high school All-Americas for this year. "The last couple of years, I've recruited for speed," says Holtz. "We've sometimes been a step or two slow. But now we have people like Ismail, who can do 40 ((yds.)) in 4.28 seconds." The Wilkes-Barre, Pa., freshman is possibly the fastest receiver in the country...