Word: nur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BORN. To Jordan's American-born, Princeton-educated Queen Nur, 28, the former Lisa Halaby, and King Hussein, 44: a son, her first child, his eighth; in Amman. Name: Hamzah, after an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad...
...boast that they control 80% of the Ogaden; they also concede that they have no hope of driving the Soviet-commanded force of 60,000 Ethiopian militiamen, supported by 6,000 Cuban soldiers, from their strongholds in Jijiga, Harar and Dire Dawa. "It is a stalemate," says Hussein Mohamed Nur, the slender commander of the liberation army in the region near Karraro. "They control the big towns, and we control everything else. They never come out unless it is in a big convoy with tanks and armored cars. Then we attack them and destroy many vehides. On the other hand...