Word: osman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November 1982, there was talk in Moscow of a face-saving pullout from the costly war of attrition. But Konstantin Chernenko, who replaced Andropov after that leader's death last February, seems uninterested in the notion. "We detected a hardening once Chernenko came to power," says Abdullah Osman, head of the Mujahedin-run Union of Afghan Doctors. Sure enough, Soviet troops recently stepped up patrols along both the southeastern border with Pakistan and the western border with Iran. "If the enemies of the motherland do not surrender," warned TASS, "the state will crush them, no matter where they...
...first night is spent at Tersef, 100 miles north of N'Djamena. Supper is served in a hut of branches and millet straw. Everyone eats from the same dish, though there is little but hard gristle and bone. "We have no ranks," says Abdul Osman, 21. "We are all combatants, we are all volunteers." His job is to teach reading and writing to the troops. After supper he conducts a lesson: "Maman est tres belle .. . Maman a une belle robe . .. Bonjour, maman." Since there are 300 different languages in Chad, French is the lingua franca...
Scoring Harvard 5-2-0-2-9 Davis Doyle (2) Forbush, Meagher (3). Rainaid Sollee: Dartmouth 2-3-2-1--8 Litman (3). Marshall (3) Oisson Osman Shots-Harvard 39 Dartmouth 35 Saves Pendergast (H) 21. Ulcickas (D) 16 Ground basis Harvard 48--Dartmouth 48 Penalty minutes Harvard 1-1-2 1/2-0--4 1/2, Dartmouth...
...spite of his seeming amiability, Sadat was not a gregarious man and had few intimate friends. One of them, wealthy Egyptian Contractor Osman Ahmed Osman, recalls that Sadat would remain with him "for two or three hours without saying a word, just chewing his pipe and thinking." A favorite Sadat pastime was a contemplative afternoon walk along the Nile near one of his ten residences...
...gremlins are still at work. One of Sadat's daughters, Mrs. Mahmud Osman, is taken ill. Brandon, in the calligrapher's office, rearranges the seating plan. Shortly after 7 p.m. the arrivals commence at the White House diplomatic entrance on the south side. Either Brandon or her assistant is there to greet them when they enter the mansion...