Word: jassim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cairo. Arafat's office says no, but a Palestinian official, speaking to TIME, confirmed the blackout, saying Arafat's lips turned blue and his eyes rolled into the back of his head before a doctor came to revive him. The collapse occurred as Arafat tried to convince HAMAD BIN JASSIM that Qatar should cancel a Middle East economic conference to protest the paralysis in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process...
...many and as varied as the peace efforts were, none appeared to offer much hope. Late last week Iraqi Information Minister Latif Nassif Jassim told TIME his country was "psychologically prepared" for peace talks. But, he said, Baghdad was sticking to its insistence on linking the gulf crisis with the Palestinian issue, a proposition Washington will not accept. "There is nothing new on our side," said Jassim. "We have nothing...
...talk to the people," Information Minister Latif Nassif Jassim told a group of reporters one night last week. "It is more important than what any minister says." He would not be pleased with the results. Despite the demonstrations organized by the government, enthusiasm for Saddam seems muted. "The people here are tired of war, tired of him, tired of not traveling, of not living," says a young man tending a store with no customers...
...rationing over the long haul, were being consumed. There is almost no bread in the city. Though the downtown streets are jammed every night, there are few customers in the stores. "Business is very bad," concedes a senior minister. "The blockade is hurting." Meanwhile, says Information Minister Latif Jassim, "morale is very high, and the people are very strong...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally appealed to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for clemency, but to no avail. After the hanging, Iraqi Information Minister Latif Nassif Jassim told journalists, "Mrs. Thatcher wanted him alive. We gave her the body...