Word: ramiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called Jesus of Nazareth, not Jesus of any other city,? says Nazareth mayor Ramiz Jaraisy. TIME correspondent and Bethlehem resident Jamil Hamad counters: ?Bethlehem is the place Jesus was born. Not even the Vatican could compete with that...
Even more perilous than the gunfire is what the Bosnians call bijela smrt, the creeping "white death" that comes when exhaustion leads to sleep in the snow and thence to death. Ramiz Bezdrob, a 66-year-old house painter, succumbed on the night of Feb. 27 trying to bring in food for his wife and five children. Four days later, other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those...
Even with the arms embargo, the Bosnian army's Fifth Corps in Bihac is holding its own against the Serbs. Its commanders loudly reject the Vance-Owen proposal. "If they try to impose that plan," says Captain Ramiz Drekovic, "we will continue our war until we liberate Bosnia and Herzegovina. It could take a year, five years, 10 or a hundred...
...surged into the building, burning party files and the portraits of communist Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. Another shooting victim died later. The port city of Durres, besieged last month by Albanians seeking any vessel out of their blighted country, braced for a new exodus. While communist leader Ramiz Alia remains the head of both state and party, he could have trouble continuing the concessions that led to free elections. Party hard- liners are in the ascendant, and last week's crackdown could even signal a return to the bad old days of Stalinist-style repression...
Although the two major parties differ on the pace and scope of the change they hope to achieve, both say progress can come only through a market economy buttressed by massive aid from Europe and the U.S. President Ramiz Alia, head of the Party of Labor since Hoxha's death in 1985, made tentative moves toward reform early last year, when he pledged to break the stranglehold of party management and introduced limited price reforms. After a series of mass demonstrations in December, the government allowed the formation of opposition parties...