Word: moussa
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...clock one morning last week Dr. Moussa Li to Marzuk, 28, a surgeon in Egypt's Jewish Hospital, walked out of his solitary cell in a Cairo prison. As a rabbi intoned Hebrew prayers, the executioner seized the white-faced surgeon, cuffed his hands in leather, bound his eyes in black cloth, led him into the death chamber, closed the door, and snapped the gallows trap. Half an hour later, 26-year-old Samuel Azar, a teacher, walked the same path of no return, and the ancient and endless quarrels of the Middle East were washed with the fresh...
After nearly a month's trial and 22 days of deliberation, Egypt's five-man Supreme Military Court handed down verdicts last week on ten Jews accused of committing espionage and sabotage for Israel. For two-Samuel Azar, 26, a teacher, and Dr. Moussa Lito Marzuk, 28, a surgeon-it was death by hanging; for six others, prison sentences ranging from seven years to life at hard labor; for two others, acquittal...
...satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb's traveling bag is rewarded by a small mummified head which turns out to be that of the mayor's long-lost missionary father...
...Palestine is our own country." " Down with Zionism! " " Long live Mustapha!" These were some of cries heard at Jerusalem during an Arab procession in celebration of " Nobi Moussa "-the Prophet Moses. Several people were arrested...