Word: mustafa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SYRIA, MAJOR GENERAL MUSTAFA TLAS: This perfervid Arab patriot is Deputy Commander in Chief of the Syrian army as well as Defense Minister. Tlas, 45, has been an uncompromising opponent of any attempt at a negotiated settlement of the Middle East crisis. A believer in "people's war," and author of a book on guerrilla fighting, he was one of the first Syrian army regulars to give support to the Palestinian commandos in their war against King Hussein, with a brief but disastrous invasion of Jordan...
...laborers can now afford such luxuries as television sets and gas stoves. About the only ones who have not profited are the citrus growers, who complain that they are unable to compete with Israeli industries in the high wage market. "If we speak sharply to the workers," complains Mustafa Hussein Nazzal, Kalkilya's Arab mayor and a prominent orchard owner, "they quit and find jobs in Israel...
Watched by several hundred Bangkok citizens who swarmed into the narrow street outside the embassy. Thai, Israeli and Egyptian officials raced to the scene. Thailand's Deputy Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhaven and Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapya, as well as the Egyptian Ambassador to Bangkok, Mustafa Essawi, entered the embassy to negotiate with the terrorists. Israeli Ambassador Amir remained outside, in direct contact with the Israeli Cabinet in Jerusalem through a hastily installed telex machine...
...letter bomb to a Beirut newspaper was disarmed. In Cairo, postal employees spotted and defused a package mailed from Belgrade. In Algiers, a package wounded the secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization office, to whom it had been addressed. In Tripoli, meanwhile, an official of the same group, Mustafa Awad Zeid, was blinded by a letter bomb that exploded as he opened...
Black September's first leader was Ali Abu Iyad (real name Mohammed Mustafa Shyein), a deputy of Al Fatah Boss Yasser Arafat. Iyad was wounded, captured and executed in July 1971 after a firefight between guerrillas and Hussein's army. But probably the organization's best-known leader was Fuad Shemali, a Lebanese Christian who masterminded some of the group's earlier operations before he died of cancer last month. Shemali left posthumous instructions to the terrorists to concentrate on kidnaping Israelis held in high esteem by Israelis themselves. He mentioned scholars, scientists and athletes...