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...want to get in touch with Master Terrorist Abu Nidal, the number in Damascus is 774236. That jewel of information comes from Mahmud Ibrahim Khaled, sole survivor of the four-man team responsible for the massacre at Italy's Leonardo da Vinci Airport on Dec. 27, 1985. According to senior judicial sources in Rome, where Khaled is being held while awaiting trial, the 20-year-old terrorist feels that he has been betrayed by his comrades and is willing to tell...
...gremlins are still at work. One of Sadat's daughters, Mrs. Mahmud Osman, is taken ill. Brandon, in the calligrapher's office, rearranges the seating plan. Shortly after 7 p.m. the arrivals commence at the White House diplomatic entrance on the south side. Either Brandon or her assistant is there to greet them when they enter the mansion...
...Mahmud Abu Zuluf, 54, is editor of East Jerusalem's influential Al Quds, the largest Arabic daily on the West Bank. He supports the Camp David agreement as "the first practical step toward a settlement of the Palestinian problem. If the situation is left to extremists on both sides, there will never be an agreement." He believes, however, that the establishment of new Jewish settlements on the West Bank shows that the Begin government is seeking only to maintain the status quo in order to tighten its grip over the occupied territories. "The settlement activity shows that Israel...
...rage, however, that binds young and old alike in the refugee camps. Holding on to the reins of his donkey, his shoes caked with slime from open sewage drains, Mahmud Mustafa Magded, 45, shouts: "Camp David, Israel, Egypt, Syria, they're all the same. I want to go back to my country, to Ashkelon...
...City's Jewish Quarter, which they see as the first step toward reducing the Arab population even further. Somewhat grudgingly, they tolerate other Israeli efforts to tidy up the Old City, like installing a cable network to get rid of unsightly (and somewhat incongruous) TV antennas. Says Mahmud Abu Zalef, editor of the Arab daily Al Quds: "Any improvement in the physical sense that will make Jerusalem more beautiful is okay with me. I don't care who does it. But it should not be done by throwing people out of their homes and replacing them with new Jewish immigrants...