Word: latif
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...need, the Sudanese are also enduring a drought and are rapidly losing patience. Earlier this year Ethiopian refugees streaming into the Sudanese border town of Kassala were attacked by mobs. "We have been involved in refugee problems since the Congo crisis of the 1960s," says Al-Amin Abdul Latif, Sudan's Ambassador to Egypt. "Enough is enough...
...well-being. Another good omen is the imminent opening of a linkup with a Saudi pipeline to the Red Sea, which will permit Iraq to step up its vital oil exports by as much as 50%. The Iraqi government is even upbeat about the military situation. Says Information Minister Latif Nasif Jasim: "Our morale is excellent. Our supply lines are short. We have the clear military advantage." But behind the official optimism lies a palpable weariness with a war that has already taken the lives of perhaps 200,000 Iraqis and Iranians. Last week sporadic shelling continued along the border...
Similarly, Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal visited Baghdad and gently took the Iraqis to task for attacking Turkish tankers carrying Iranian crude oil in the gulf, but he got little satisfaction. As Iraqi Information Minister Latif Nasif Jasim later explained, "How can we know which ship our rockets...