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...proposal to bomb Libya is idiotic. Our use of terrorism to fight terrorism will only spread the violence and give justification for escalating acts of cruelty against U.S. citizens. Murat Zagoloff Spring Valley...
...tried to raise money for El-Gabrowny's defense, and raised $500 to buy medicine for Sheikh Omar. But his motives were purely charitable, Hopper says: "He would always stand up for the underdog." The increasingly devout Habib also joined the same hardline Muslim prayer group as Willy Brigitte, Murat Ofkeli and Bilal Khazal, who were all later charged with terrorism offenses in Australia or overseas. But he didn't share their views, Hopper says. Indeed, Habib had a public fight with Khazal, and was eventually banned by the group because "they thought...
...Ruslan Aushev, kept his republic out of the Chechen crossfire. He was sympathetic to the Chechens, even offering guerrillas medical treatment. He refused to send Ingush paramilitary police to Chechnya. In April, though, Aushev was replaced at Moscow's instigation by a former Russian Federal Security Service general, Murat Zyazikov, who toed the Kremlin hard line. Ingush and Chechens suspected of rebel sympathies started to disappear. The lightning strikes were the response. Until now, the assumption was that the insurgents were Chechens. Aliyev and other locals, though, assert that many were local Ingush. Says former Russian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov...
Some of the royals have gone to work. Prince Louis Murat, whose great-great-great grandfather briefly ruled the kingdom of Naples in Napoleon's day, is president of Compagnie Ferguson Morrison-Knudsen, a Paris-based subsidiary of America's Morrison-Knudsen Co., while Michael of Rumania is a stockbroker in Lausanne. Some live off the money they or their family got out of the country. Others, like Italy's Umberto, manage very well with the help of monarchist friends who either hope to restore them to power or are moved by a sense of nostalgia...
...Died. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, 72, creator of Dagwood and Blondie, the cartoon couple whose exploits are still followed by some 75 million newspaper readers around the world; of a lung embolism; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Young's original 1930 comic strip portrayed Dagwood Bumstead as the well-heeled playboy son of an industrialist and Blondie Boopadoop as a money-hungry, man-chasing flapper. The characters had little appeal for Depression audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried...