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Earlier in this month, several female workers from Honduras came to Harvard and explained to students their conviction that FTAA would likely worsen conditions in their country’s maquiladoras. Making clothes for the firm of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs (a.k.a. P. Diddy), Lydda Eli Gonzalez told of poverty wages, long overtime hours, firings for pregnancy and water supplies found to be contaminated with stomach-churning levels of fecal matter. For these denizens of the sweatshops, so-called free trade is not fair trade. Designed to strengthen the freedom of capital, FTAA brings...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, second largest of the commando groups, has an estimated membership of 3,500. It was founded in 1967 by George Habash, a Lydda-born physician who was educated at the American University of Beirut. Habash's group is more flamboyant than Fatah. Marxist-Leninist in outlook, the P.F.L.P. despises the kingships of Hussein and Faisal almost as much as it hates Israelis and Western (meaning U.S.) "imperialism." The P.F.L.P., known to Western diplomats in Beirut as "P-Flippers," has carried out some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks, including the simultaneous skyjacking...
...were a thousand prodigies Spreading everywhere In Lydda, in Ramallah, in the Galilee... Here we shall stay, A wall upon your breast, And in your throat we shall stay, A piece of glass, a cactus thorn, And in your eyes, A blazing fire. -Tawfiq Zayad
...travel agent, had been held in Damascus since their TWA jet was hijacked on Aug. 29. They were exchanged for 13 Syrians held by the Israelis, including two pilots who had accidentally flown their Syrian Air Force MIG-17s into Israel 16 months ago. In an emotional scene at Lydda airport, Premier Golda Meir hugged and kissed the two returnees. The following day, Major Nissim Ashkenazi, a top combat pilot shot down over Egypt in August, and Captain Giora Rom, whose Mirage jet was hit in September, were traded for 52 Egyptian civilians, five soldiers and one air force pilot...
...airliner, the shooting up of two others, the bombing of the Tel Aviv central bus station and a Jerusalem supermarket, and the blowing up of the Aramco pipeline-its most recent exploit. It is led by left-leaning Dr. George Habash, 44, a Palestinian Arab from Lydda who long ago turned from medicine to the violent practice of Palestine politics. Last week, in a rare interview, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs talked with Habash in PFLP headquarters in Amman and heard a typical fedayeen voice-fanatical, boastful, uncompromising. Some questions and answers...