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...verge of collapse. Thus when the Arabs looked across the Mediterranean, they saw a vast territory spotted with squabbling factions -- Christians, Jews, Visigoths -- separated from Africa by a small strait and ripe for conquest. In 711 a mixed force of Arabs and Berbers under the command of Musa ibn Nusayr crossed the sea and smashed through the patchy Visigothic resistance; within 50 years most of Spain, except for the pockets of Castile and Catalonia in the north, had become al-Andalus, the farthest western expansion of a vast Muslim empire run by the Abbasid dynasty from Baghdad...
...consider him as a war criminal," said Samy K. Musa, a graduate student at Northeastern University and the president of the General Union. "He was the mastermind of the Israeli policies of killing, destroying, beating, and mass arrests...
...they have encouraged in recent years: greater moderation and realism on the part of Palestinian nationalists. Even George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh, leaders of two notoriously radical pro-Syrian factions within the P.L.O., hailed the American decision as a triumph for the intifadeh. But the renegade group of Abu Musa issued a veiled threat. "We fully reject the Arafat concessions and will prove our stand practically, in a way that neither Israel nor the United States would expect," said a spokesman in Damascus...
...Houston engineer and an expert on the Soviet space program. "It blows us out of our last space-operations monopoly." The Soviet program achieved a second milestone just a few days earlier: on board the orbiting Mir space station, which has no U.S. equivalent, cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov broke the world record of 326 days in space...
...experience anywhere on the effects of long-term, deep-space radiation exposure." Even so, with Romanenko's performance the Soviets bolstered their commanding lead over the U.S. in long-duration space flights. Soviet space officials have decreed that the current crew of the space station Mir, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov, will stay in orbit for a full year...