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Aboard the plane, Saudi Arabian Passenger Ibrahim al Nami, 29, thought he saw Ospino go through the hole. Said al Nami: "I was talking with my wife when we heard the explosion. Suddenly my chair sank. The man sitting next to me at the window, I don't know what happened to him. He disappeared. My foot went through the cabin floor. I caught hold of my wife's seat and held on hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Explosion on Flight 840 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...There was a big bang and then the man beside me was blown out along with his seat," said Ibrahim al-Nami, 29, a Saudi Arabian passenger who was among the injured. "I felt myself being pulled out too and I hung on to my wife's seat beside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Explodes in TWA Jet Over Greece | 4/3/1986 | See Source »

Greek officials identified the injured as Henry Simpson, 70, of Los Angeles; his wife, Myrtle, 67; James Carlton, 29, an American; Eleni Phillips, 63, a Greek-American from Patras, Greece; Despina Siotis, 24, of Athens; al-Nami and his wife, Nala...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Explodes in TWA Jet Over Greece | 4/3/1986 | See Source »

...association's local chapter in the city of Isezaki. To Isezaki's clubwomen Mrs. Yamada shrilled, "No concubine is fit to be a member of a women's organization." Taking Mrs. Yamada at her word, the respected chief secretary of the Isezaki chapter, 39-year-old Nami Marata, remorsefully decided to resign. Nami, as everyone in the Isezaki chapter knew, is the mistress of a wealthy merchant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Quarter for Concubines | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...chapter's other officers were outraged. At a stormy general meeting they agreed that, "We can't stand quietly by while Nami, who worked so hard for the organization, is kicked out merely because she's a concubine." When a small minority of the chapter's members persisted in supporting Mrs. Yamada's anti-concubine stand, all eleven of Nami's fellow officers resigned their positions in a huff. But before the meeting adjourned, the pro-Nami majority spiritedly resolved that concubines had a right to belong to the chapter, that concubine-keeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Quarter for Concubines | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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