Word: masri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been open less than a week and there are so many people here," Nashat T. Masri '93 said last week. "I just bought a pair of tennis shoes--the prices seem reasonable, and the people are eager to help...
...words or even look at each other. But after hours of delicate mediation by other Arab leaders, the atmosphere thawed. At one point, when the Syrian and Iraqi Foreign Ministers were deadlocked over a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in the gulf war, Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher Masri went to Assad's suite to discuss the problem. Clad in his pajamas, Assad made a key concession -- he agreed to accept the resolution without changes demanded by Iran -- and broke the impasse. By the end of the summit, Assad and Saddam Hussein were not only talking, but addressing each...
...Masri, who was appointed mayor only last November by the Israelis, was shot on the morning of March 2 outside the Nablus municipal building. Though he was a Palestinian moderate with close ties to Jordan, his funeral turned into the largest show of public support for the outlawed P.L.O. that has been seen in the West Bank since the territory was occupied by Israel in 1967. The mourners also displayed their displeasure with Jordan's King Hussein, who last month announced that he had broken off political ties with Arafat following the failure of the two men to find...
...little progress in solving the murder. Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee that the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine or the notorious Abu Nidal group was "probably" responsible for the killing. Both Syrian-backed, anti-Arafat groups accused al Masri of being an Israeli collaborator, and Abu Nidal also called the assassination "a warning" to Arafat and Hussein. Some Israeli sources, however, did not rule out Arafat's own Fatah organization as the culprit. Had the mainstream P.L.O. wanted to hit back at Hussein, Mayor al Masri would have been...
...returning the administration of the major towns to moderate Palestinians after three years of direct military control. And it was a savage tragedy for a distinguished family that has taken a lead in trying to improve the quality of life on the West Bank. In the wake of al Masri's assassination, three other moderate mayoral candidates all announced that they were unavailable because they did not want to "discredit the leadership of the P.L.O." The likelihood is that they simply feared for their lives...