Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roots of last week's upheaval go back to 1923, when the agricultural region of Nagorno-Karabakh, three-quarters of whose population is Armenian Christians, was made part of the largely Muslim Azerbaijan Republic. Claiming that they are discriminated against by the Azerbaijani majority, Nagorno- Karabakh's 120,000 Armenians have long wanted to meld their 1,760-sq.-mi. enclave into the Armenian Republic. Earlier this month officials of the Armenian Republic proposed annexing Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous backwater that produces grapes, tobacco and livestock. Moscow rejected the request...
...rebel fighter: "How can we sit down with a man who has killed so many of our friends?" Another reason is the rivalry among rebel leaders. They range from religious zealots like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e-Islami (Gulbuddin), who want to erect a theocratic state, to Muslim moderates like Pir Gailani who favor the traditional Afghan way of life...
...chapel of London's Lambeth Palace, Terry Waite's relatives gathered last week to observe the first anniversary of his disappearance. Although the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God is widely suspected of having kidnaped the Anglican Church official while he was on a humanitarian mission in Beirut to free two American captives, no group has ever claimed responsibility. Newspaper reports said Waite and other Western hostages were handed over to Iranian Revolutionary Guards earlier this year, but the accounts could not be verified. Waite's boss, Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, recently confirmed that the church...
...ascended to heaven on a white horse. At one point, after a police officer was beaten, his comrades chased a group of demonstrators into al-Aqsa mosque itself, normally off limits to any military personnel. The fearsome scene seemed to encapsulate all the hatred of the Arab-Israeli conflict: Muslim and Jew literally battling for control of the most revered territory in the Holy Land...
...town is little more than an overgrown village, with ramshackle buildings huddled along dirt streets. Yet the road to Khost (pop. 15,000) was the scene last week of some of the most furious fighting in the Soviet Union's eight- year drive to crush Muslim rebels in Afghanistan. Although accounts of the battle differed, all reports indicated that Soviet and Afghan forces had mounted a desperate effort to break the latest guerrilla siege of Khost. Supported by Soviet Sukhoi-25 attack jets, an estimated 20,000 troops repeatedly struck rebel positions along the 50-mile highway that connects Khost...