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AHMED ABU HAMED MOHIEDDIN, a Syrian wheat harvester, on the drought that has forced approximately 300,000 farmers to flee to the city of Damascus in search of work...
...later, Berri, who is also Lebanon's Minister of Justice, organized his own show of "justice," though it bore no direct relation to either of last week's explosions. Amal militiamen bound and blindfolded Mohieddin Saleh, 22, a Sunni Muslim they charged with trying to set off a car bomb three months earlier, then took him to a playground near the Rawdat Shahidain Cemetery. As a crowd of 1,000 looked on, Amal executioners stepped up to the prostrate Saleh and pumped seven machine-gun rounds into his face and body. The grisly execution tragically bore out the lament...
DIED. Fuad Mohieddin, 58, Prime Minister of Egypt since January 1982, secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party, and No. 2 man in the regime of President Hosni Mubarak; of a heart attack, following a seizure three weeks ago that was aggravated by his refusal to follow doctors' orders to abandon strict fasting during the holy month of Ramadan; in Cairo. A Deputy Prime Minister under President Anwar Sadat, Mohieddin formed the first Mubarak Cabinet after Sadat's assassination in October 1981. Though Mubarak praised him as having done his duty "to perfection," the Prime Minister...
...October, Mubarak has run Egypt with extreme caution. Last week, however, he shuffled his Cabinet for the first time, naming twelve new ministers out of 34. Surrendering some of the day-to-day duties of government, the President appointed as his new Prime Minister a veteran politician, Fuad Mohieddin, 55, who has been active in Egyptian public life for 20 years. Among the Cabinet members shifted: Interior Minister Nabawi Ismail, who was in charge of domestic security at the time Sadat was slain...
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Fuad Mohieddin explained that Mubarak "feels the release of this group will open a new chapter on the political stage." Those released were allowed to resume political activities, and some opposition leaders noted with surprise that they were being granted time on television to discuss their views. That rarely happened during Sadat's reign...