Word: moussa
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Most women can only dream of leading a life as glamorous as hers, but these days Nastassja Kinski's dearest wish is to be an ordinary mom. Once the darling of the jet-set whirl, the lissome actress has been living quietly near Geneva with Ibrahim Moussa, her husband of 1 1/2 years, and their two children, Aljosha, 2, and Sonia Leila, 3 months. Kinski has no plans to resume her movie career for the time being. Instead, she watches over her children, occasionally flying to Rome, where Moussa is co-producing a 90-min. made-for- TV movie directed...
...officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some leading radicals rejected the Libyan leader's thinly veiled call for a new terrorist campaign, including George Habash and Abu Moussa...
...Moussa, who led an unsuccessful military campaign to oust Arafat from the PLO leadership, made clear to Khadafy outside the conference hall that he was not interested in joining a new terrorist campaign, the sources said...
...then adorned with the messianic title of Imam, Moussa Sadr established and funded a Shi'ite militia named Amal, the Arabic word for "hope." Celebrating the deeds of Shi'ite warriors of the past, the Imam declared, "Arms were the adornment of men." Moussa Sadr then vanished in a manner guaranteed to immortalize him to his followers. On a visit to Libya in 1978, he simply disappeared. Many Shi'ites still believe that he remains the captive of Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi...
Lebanese Shi'ites soon gained another source of inspiration: the Iranian revolution led by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Moussa Sadr had supported Khomeini during the Ayatullah's long exile in Iraq and later in France. Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, describes the galvanizing effect of the Iranian upheaval in the spring issue of Foreign Affairs. "For the moderate Shia mainstream, this was a chance for the country's largest group to lay claim to its legitimate share of power," he says. "For more marginal and intemperate men, there...