Word: raschid
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...Yale, Bruce befriended a youthful Arab partisan named Raschid (Zeev Revah), who spoke eloquently of his people's cause. Now, with Bruce studying in the Holy Land, the two resume their tête-á-têtes while Raschid loads automatic-rifle clips. After Raschid goes underground with those fellows in the black sedan, Bruce is one of the few people in Jerusalem who knows how to get in touch with...
Donald Pleasence, as an Israeli security operative, wants Bruce to inform on his friend. Bruce's fellow university students, who appear to be mixing archaeology with target practice in the desert, want him to use Raschid to ar range a palaver with the Arabs. Nicol Williamson, as one of Bruce's teachers, warns him of the dangers of involvement. Whether Williamson encourages his students' books-and-bullets curriculum or merely abides it is never clear...
...Hamid Raschid, 42, and Rusi Nasar, 37, are Moslems. They knew each other in their native Russia, both contrived to escape from the Russian army in World War II, both eventually found their way to the U.S. This year they decided to go on a hadj-the pilgrimage to Mecca enjoined by the Koran upon every able-bodied Moslem...
...cried: "How can you as a religious leader condone the crimes against religion committed by the Communist rulers?" The Russian replied that Russian Moslems such as the Crimean Tartars and the North Caucasians (who were deported and exterminated) had been punished by God, not by the Communist government. Replied Raschid: "I am a Tartar. I saw with my own eyes how the mosques were destroyed and the clergy sent to slave-labor camps in Siberia." He produced photographs to prove...
...suite at the Savoy Hotel, swarthy Prince Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasi, 23, descendant of Bagdad's Caliphs, and heir to the fabulously wealthy throne of Bahawalpur in the Punjab, idly leafed through the News of the World. His eye lit on Katherine's picture. Could he, he asked by the next mail, come and congratulate such a lucky girl in person? The two arranged a rendezvous outside crowded Walham Green Underground station. Then the Prince went to Fulham to meet the family. They called him Harry...