Word: mansourism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bombings, which killed one Pakistani pilgrim, may also have had an Iranian connection. Saudi television broadcast what it said was the confession of the ringleader, Mansour Hassan Abdullah Mehmeid, 32. He and some of his accomplices had received Iranian training, said Mehmeid, and "collected the explosives from the back door of the Iranian embassy in Kuwait...
...woman and wounded 230 others; ten days later, following charges that Libya was responsible, President Reagan ordered bombing raids against targets in Libya. Last week West German police arrested Christine Gabriele Endrigkeit, 27, a native of West Berlin. She is allegedly an associate of jailed Jordanian Terrorist Achmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi, who has been convicted of bombing the German-Arab Friendship Society building in West Berlin a week before the La Belle blast. West German police suspected that Hazi was involved in the La Belle case, but were unable to prove it; they now believe Endrigkeit carried the bomb into...
...Aviv with 360 aboard (saved by an alert El Al baggage inspector), and possibly the La Belle discotheque, also in West Berlin (destroyed on April 5, killing a U.S. Army sergeant and a Turkish woman and injuring 230). The prime suspects are two Syrian-trained Palestinian brothers, Achmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi and Nezar Nawaf Mansour Hindawi...
...Roach. "He doesn't content himself with platitudes; he acts, and we're obliged to respond." But many U.S. Catholics have less enthusiasm for response. "I don't think the church can go back. It amazes me that they think they can do this," says Agnes Mansour, the Michigan state social services director who chose to resign as a nun earlier this year because she refused to comply with a Vatican directive that she state her opposition to publicly funded abortion...
...Mansour's attitude is supported by the 2,000-member National Coalition of American Nuns, a radical group that is urging liberal nuns to consider severing their canonical ties with Rome. If some nuns do ignore the directives that are certain to follow the current scrutiny of religious orders, one Vatican official cautions that "there could be a real housecleaning." For many American nuns, however, this will not be an issue: the Chicago-based Institute on Religious Life, representing 25,000 traditionalist members of religious President Malone orders, has expressed "joy and gratitude" at the Pope's firm...