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...Makram Azzi, 65, a retired pilot for Middle East Airlines, Lebanon's national flag carrier, said the blast tore his front door from its hinges. "What can you do? This is a war," he said, still visibly shaken. Ghanem, 64, had returned to Beirut from the Gulf only two days earlier. Like many anti-Syrian legislators, he had spent the summer months abroad out of safety concerns. Eight prominent anti-Syrian figures have been killed in a series of assassinations since February 2005 when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri died in a massive truck bomb blast. Many Lebanese have blamed...
...misleading to think the current conflict in the Holy Land is a continuation of the mythic struggle between Abraham's sons. There is nothing holy about savage bloodshed that has destroyed generations of innocent lives for the sole purpose of maintaining political power and control of land and water. Makram Talih New Haven, Conn...
Egypt After Sadat--Herman Ellts, Hanna Batatu, Guldo Goldman, Mona Makram Ebeld and A.J. Meyer; Kennedy School Forum...
Carlos Garcia of the Philippine delegation had been hiding in the hills only a few months ago. Egypt's Makram Ebeid Pasha was a political prisoner until last fall. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Ivan Subasich had been a war exile in the U.S. Belgium's Socialist Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak brought along an old parliamentary enemy, now a fast friend-Communist Albert Marteaux, Minister of Health...
...last week the most serious result was a minuscule opposition bloc which Makram set up within the Wafd Party. Nahas was still sitting on the lid, unshaken, still carrying out a policy of 1) maintaining the integrity and independence of Egypt and 2) sticking to the letter and spirit of the cordial Anglo-Egyptian Alliance. Last week, Nahas Pasha's Egypt maintained a sphinxlike calm...