Word: khartoum
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...20th century was elaborating new anxieties about nuclear war, its gaze flicking distractedly over the future, abruptly the 19th century came barging into the room: a plumed, anachronistic production of outraged empire in its panoply and high rhetoric. The British fleet steamed out of Portsmouth. To relieve Gordon at Khartoum? To lift the siege of Lucknow? The British were vividly time traveling. The ministers of the ex-empire took a bracing, almost archaically principled stand-a position that itself seemed an exercise in nostalgia: quaint, perhaps, but admirable. Honor was mentioned. The imperial ships set sail like positrons...
...reassurance," adding: "There are indications of increasing Libyan activity and threats to peaceful nations in the region." Haig also talked in Cairo with Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, whose border villages have been strafed by Libyan planes. Nimeiri says he fears a Libyan invasion, although some European diplomats in Khartoum believe the situation is not as serious as he has portrayed...
...tanks into neighboring Chad, and subsequently announcing the "merger" of the two countries. He has mounted numerous coup attempts against the regime of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, whose country protects the lifeblood of Egypt, the Nile. Last week the Sudanese government declared that a group of foreigners arrested in Khartoum had been trained in Libya as part of another plot. Gaddafi has stockpiled $12 billion worth of mainly Soviet-supplied military equipment that some analysts fear could be the underpinning for a future Soviet rapid deployment force in the Middle East. Last August two Libyan jets fired upon (and were...
...melodrama was taking place in Warsaw. The central figure was Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda, 44, also known as Abu Daoud, who has been accused of participating in two of Black September's most famous operations: the Olympic attack and, in 1973, the murder of two U.S. diplomats in Khartoum. Abu Daoud was sitting at a table in the second-floor cafe of Warsaw's Victoria Inter-Continental Hotel last week when a young man suddenly appeared and hit him with five pistol shots. Abu Daoud was seriously wounded; the assailant escaped...
...Seminar in Khartoum in February 1979 on "Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children," delegates mostly from Health Departments of ten African and Middle Eastern countries participated. They formulated four recommendations to abolish all forms of female genital mutilation, and to publicize the damage done by these operations all over Africa as well as to initiate worldwide educational campaigns against the practice. The WHO also urged international cooperation. In light of these recommendations, it is a great disservice by professors at Harvard University, and others, to attempt to suppress the facts...