Word: omar
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...presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three other Americans, Joseph Cicippio, Frank Reed and Edward Tracy, are said to be held by groups called the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar Moukhtar Forces...
...object of Helms' ire was General Manuel Noriega, commander of Panama's defense force and the nation's strongman since 1983. Helms accused Noriega, a onetime intelligence chief and right-hand man of the late populist dictator Omar Torrijos, of being "head of the biggest drug-trafficking operation in the Western Hemisphere." Even Noriega's staunchest supporters in Washington suspected that Helms was on to something. Says one Reagan Administration official: "Noriega gets a cut of every kind of illicit business down there...
...three other U.S. hostages were abducted this fall. They are Joseph Cicippio, American University's comptroller; Frank Reed, director of a private elementary school in Beirut; and Edward Tracy, a writer. Their claimed abductors, the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar Moukhtar Forces, are if anything more mysterious and less known than Islamic Jihad...
...other convicted fugitives sentenced to life in prison were Ozzuddin Badrakkam, described as the Palestine Liberation Front's military chief, and Ziad el Omar, who bought the hijackers' cruise tickets...
Hands Across America was but one of two megathons designed to open hearts and pocketbooks on Sunday. Four hours before Hands was to link up, Omar Khalifa, 29, a Sudanese runner, was to light a giant flame outside the United Nations in New York City and start up the grand finale of another Geldof megaevent, called Sport Aid and co-sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), to raise funds for Africa's hungry. In 266 cities from Ouagadougou to Bangkok and beyond, up to 20 million people were to participate in synchronized racing and sporting events...