Word: khalidi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, the N.L.F. captured Zingibar, capital of Fadhli. Next morning a band of 28 N.L.F. rebels invaded the town of Jaar and kidnaped Sheik Ali Atefal-Khalidi, 24, who was taking his turn as chief of state of the federation's government, a job that rotates among the sheiks. Most of the other sheiks were off in Geneva, talking with a delegation of U.N. independence observers who had prudently decided to do their observing from afar...