Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Farrakhan, 60, took over the Nation of Islam in1975 after the death of Elijah Muhammed, thefather of the Black Muslim movement...
...sides remain far apart. The Croats are insisting on forming a separate, strong entity within the union, which the Muslims fear will serve as a trapdoor for eventual secession to Croatia. There are also disputes over where internal borders should be drawn -- and whether Muslim refugees could return. One Croat official said there was so much mutual hatred that Washington's idea of confederation was "applying Madison Avenue standards to a Bronxlike situation." But the pace of discussions accelerated as Christopher brought the key players together in Washington to work out a deal...
...world if they will reverse their policy," said a Western diplomat in Zagreb: money for economic reconstruction and refugee resettlement, loans from the World Bank and associate membership in the European Union. Tudjman, haggard and solemn, appeared on television last week to announce that he backed a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...
...American official of Kach who knew Goldstein. Says Michael Guzofsky, the associate director of Kahane Chai, a splinter of the Kach Party: "In his mind, there was no such thing as an innocent Arab." Among the Palestinians of Hebron, he developed a reputation as a fierce bully who harassed Muslim worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a spot sacred in both Judaism and Islam where adherents of the two faiths pray at separate hours. "Sometimes he hit worshippers," says Mohammad Suleiman Abu Sarah, one of the unarmed Palestinian guards at the tomb. "And sometimes he refused to leave when...
Croats and Muslims fighting elsewhere in Bosnia agreed to halt hostilities. Negotiating under U.N. auspices in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, representatives of the warring factions agreed to place heavy weapons along front lines under U.N. control, as in Sarajevo, by noon on March 7. Meanwhile, in a major policy shift, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman said he would accept the idea of a Croat-Muslim state within Bosnia...