Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World War II. Two million Serbs, Croats and Muslims are to be shoved around as the multiethnic country is rearranged along ethnic lines. More than 1.5 million Bosnian Muslims are to be jammed into wretched "safe areas" that will resemble, at best, the Gaza Strip or, at worst, the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon. The Muslim enclaves drawn on Milosevic's map will depend for survival on the power of the West and the mercy of the Serbs and Croats -- qualities in desperately short supply. Analysts are fearful of further attempts to drive the Muslims out by strangling their havens...
...plane for Lagos, setting an elaborate police operation in motion. In a deal with the U.S., Nigeria refused to let him enter the country. U.S. agents who had slipped aboard the Nigeria-bound jetliner then had him arrested. Rezaq is said to be the sole survivor among the Palestinian hijackers who seized Egypt Air Flight 648 in 1985. After a forced landing in Malta, two women passengers were shot in cold blood; Egyptian commandos stormed the plane, and an additional 58 were killed...
Also, E. Virginia Demos of Beth Israel Hospital (psychology); Denise Dilno, an independent artist, (visual arts); Rosanne DiStefano of New York Institute of Technology (astrophysics); Robin Fleming of Boston College (medieval history); Rose F. Frisch of the School of Public Health (reproductive biology); Beth Ann Goldring of Palestinian Federation of Women's Action Committees (peace studies); Robin Kilson of MIT (history and women's studies); Modupe Labode of Iowa State University (history) and Mary Lassen of the Committee for Boston Public Housing (social policy...
...life long after music and literature. His effort to put them together started after the 1967 war with the seizure of the West Bank. "Many of my friends who had studied in America began to be drawn back, and I began to be involved in the re-emergence of Palestinian nationalism." He set out to relearn classical Arabic. He got extra encouragement from his wife Mariam Cortas, the daughter of a Lebanese educator. "Mariam also grew up in the Middle East, but in an entirely Arab system...
...canard that Said supports Arab terrorism goes back to the '70s, and it is supported, his critics say, by the fact that from 1977 until 1991 he was a member of the Palestine National Council, a Palestinian parliament-in-exile consisting of some 400 members worldwide, which serves as an umbrella for the P.L.O. as well as for nonmilitary and nonterrorist organizations. Never mind that Said has always urged the P.L.O. to seek the conference table, not the car bomb; or that, to the U.S. government, the P.N.C. and the P.L.O. were wholly distinct. For the Israeli right...