Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there were not trouble enough, Israel's controversial Minister of Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon chose last week to move into a new home: an apartment in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Sharon, who still owns a farm in the Negev, decided to live in the Muslim quarter to make it safer for Jews who would be encouraged to follow him. Arabs responded with new protests and a strike by shopkeepers in East Jerusalem. When Sharon threw a Hanukkah party for 300 guests, hundreds of police had to be called out to provide security, and Israeli...
...political fortunes have suffered setbacks. Now Bhutto, 34, has decided to test her luck at marriage. Last week the daughter of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was wed under a rose-garlanded canopy to Asif Ali Zardari, 34, scion of a wealthy Pakistani family. The Muslim union, arranged by the families of the bride and groom, took place at the Bhutto family residence in Karachi...
Though it is by no means certain that a Soviet pullout is imminent, Najibullah was hard at work last week trying to legitimize his regime in the eyes of his overwhelmingly Islamic countrymen. He billed the National Assembly meeting as a loya jirgah, an Afghan Muslim tradition in which village elders and religious leaders gather to consult in times of national crisis. Though the Afghan leader, who joined the Communist Party in 1965, has never been notably religious, he opened all his speeches with the Islamic preamble, "In the name of Allah, the beneficent and merciful . . ." To downplay his connections...
...statements were almost certainly made with Soviet approval, an indication of the visitors' eagerness to start packing. The occupation has cost more than 25,000 Soviet lives, and drains as much as $6 billion a year from the military budget. In addition, Soviet relations with the Muslim world have deteriorated, the Red Army's reputation for effectiveness has been tarnished, and Gorbachev's overtures to China and the U.S. have been hindered. One strong indication of the war's diplomatic cost was last month's 123-to-19 vote in the U.N. General Assembly demanding withdrawal of Soviet troops, which...
...southern tip of the Philippines, about 500 miles from Manila. Sulu's capital, Jolo, has deteriorated markedly even though it gave Aquino 95% of its votes during her run for the presidency. Violent local feuds often flare, and for three months the city has had no electricity. Muslim secessionists threaten to break out in open warfare. Says Mayor Aminkadra Abubakar: "Every day I send ((Aquino)) a letter and a telegram, reminding her of what ought to be done here. I never get a direct reply...