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...asked: "Where lives the 'Prince'?" Then, I stood silenced For I had no address, l am a man in transit, Twenty years in transit A man who was even deprived The right of having an address. -Rashid Hussein...
While his troops surrounded the plane, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum, 26, Defense Minister of the Emirates, tried to talk the skyjackers into letting the passengers go. He asked them to name a price, but they refused to discuss money. Were they interested in exchanging the passengers for some political prisoner? the Defense Minister asked. "It was strange, very strange," mused Maktum. "All they ever asked for was sandwiches, ice, breakfast, lunch and dinner." Their only explanation: "We are awaiting instructions from our headquarters...
Talks were begun by Emirate Defense Minister Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid, who was allowed on board the plane, but no progress was reported...
Philippines. Reports continue to filter out about clashes in the southernmost islands of the Philippines between 'Moslem insurgents' and government troops. Unless Saladin or Haroon al-Rashid have been reincarnated, something more than the importance of Mohammed is at issue here. Perhaps it is the dictatorial and repressive American-backed regime of Ferdinand Marcos, who will run for office next year in a special plebescite--which, if held, would violate the nation's constitution...
Test. In the manner of Harun al-Rashid, the Arab caliph who ruled Baghdad in the 8th century, Gaddafi sometimes disguises himself in Bedouin robes and roams the city at night to see if his people are behaving properly. One time he appeared at Tripoli's Central Hospital and, to test the institution's efficiency, pretended that his father desperately needed a doctor. When a Taiwanese medic blithely suggested that a few aspirin would suffice, Gaddafi stripped off his robe and denounced the doctor: "You will regret that decision all your life." The doctor was fired...