Word: nabil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unrest. P.L.O. officials say they have provided food, medical equipment and money to the inhabitants of the Gaza refugee camps, though camp residents deny it. "The P.L.O. is the only institution these people can go to when they're in trouble or when they need help," says Nabil Sha'ath, a member of the P.L.O. central council. Still, the veteran P.L.O. leadership has found itself for the most part looking on from the sidelines...
...hands of his controversial lawyer, Verges, a flamboyant Marxist with strong sympathies for Third World causes. The lawyer, who is known for taking on the legal defense of accused terrorists, brought in to help him Jean-Martin M'Bemba, 45, an attorney from Brazzaville in the Congo, and Nabil Bouaita, 36, a lawyer from Algiers. In the closing days of the trial, Verges and his two aides began the long-advertised attempt to put France rather than Barbie on trial. Verges sought to shift the focus of attention from Barbie to the alleged crimes of France, other West European countries...
...from the rest of Bethlehem. Within, Palestinian children, hiding behind mounds of trash and rubble, sometimes hurl stones at passing cars. Deeper in the shadows, young Arab men vie for political ascendancy with threats of violence. Misbah Mohammed Rizq, 58, is Dheisheh's camp leader. For 30 years Abu Nabil, as Rizq is known, has doled out the U.N.'s meager rations, seen that the camp's fetid sanitation system works and interceded with the Israeli military government to keep his people out of trouble. He performs his difficult job with the skill of a professional refugee, which...
Amid the squalor, Abu Nabil's family, including four of his children and four grandchildren, live comfortably in an airy two-story concrete house. Nabil receives $650 a month from the U.N. and an additional $500 from a son in Saudi Arabia, enough money to leave the camp. The Rizqs remain, however, hoping to remind the world that the Palestinian problem still exists. Abu Nabil says firmly, "Even if you are doing well yourself, the occupation is a terrible thing...
...typifies the pain of the occupation. He has not been given permission to work in the West Bank or to emigrate elsewhere because of the fiery anti-Israeli speeches he delivered at Bethlehem University. Young people are coming to believe that only force can bring a solution. Though Abu Nabil does not believe violence will win back the homeland, he reluctantly agrees that words are not enough. "My generation can fight only with our tongues," he warns. "Theirs will have to fight with guns...