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...death of a Ramallah man and a boy and show their solidarity against the Gush Emunin marchers and the Israeli occupation. The man, Kalil Issa, 42, was gunned down on the main street of Ramallah by a local councilman suspected of collaborating with the Israeli occupiers. The boy, Jamil Arafat Hamis Jum, 6, had been killed by Israeli soldiers quelling an Arab demonstration against the killing of Issa. (The Israelis claimed that a soldier's gun went off accidentally, but the Arabs charged that the soldiers had fired deliberately...
...delegates fume at his hit-and-run habit of simply walking out of the Council or the General Assembly after delivering a tough speech and letting his deputies handle the fallout. On one such occasion, Moynihan started to stroll out of the Assembly when Saudi Arabia's voluble Ambassador Jamil Baroody was standing at the speaker's rostrum. "Come back, sit down, perhaps you may learn something," Baroody taunted. Moynihan came to an abrupt halt, wheeled around, sat down and peered up at Baroody with a look of exaggerated attention on his face...
...response of Afro-Asian delegates who had voted for the Zionism resolution was predictably cold. Pakistan's Iqbal Akhund made the observation that no nation "has a monopoly on righteousness or self-righteousness," while Saudi Arabia's irrepressible Jamil Baroody offered a mock resolution forgiving "the illustrious Daniel Patrick Moynihan for any misconceptions he may have formed about the U.N. during his sojourn...
...World section story on Syria and its pivotal position in the Middle East peace equation, TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William Marmon were granted a rare interview with Syria's President Hafez Assad. Prager also talked to two of Assad's closest advisers: Major General Naji Jamil, head of the Syrian air force, and Major General Mustapha Tlas, the Defense Minister. Following an old Syrian gift-giving custom, Jamil presented Prager with a small air-force pin, smilingly suggesting that it might make it easier for Prager to be a military correspondent in Syria in the unhappy event...
Lost Evidence. In June a maintenance man notified the FBI's Richmond office that he had discovered a wiretapping device on the telephone line of Jamil Ramaden, a radio salesman of Palestinian ancestry. The device turned out to belong to the Richmond police department, which had not bothered to get a court order. (The reasons for the tap have never been disclosed.) Even so, Assistant U.S. Attorney G. Rodney Sager decided not to prosecute the case after he was told that there was no proof that the tap had ever been used. The agents returned the equipment...