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Died. Haj Amin el Husseini, 80, fanatic former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; of a heart ailment; in Beirut. Haj Amin, whose elfin, almost angelic appearance concealed a wily, often ruthless nature, joined the British-backed Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in 1921 was made Mufti (a jurist who interprets Moslem religious law), in effect leader, of Palestine's Arabs. He then turned against the British, beginning a long career of violent opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. He instigated anti-Zionist riots, wiped out Arab opponents, and was driven into exile...
...runs an empire within an empire. Frankel began his Times career as a stringer, joined the paper full-time after graduating from Columbia University in 1952. Born in Germany, Frankel fled the Nazis with his family in 1938; 18 years later he returned to Europe to cover the Hungarian revolt and serve as Moscow correspondent. In Washington, Frankel established himself as one of America's top diplomatic reporters, winning the influential job of Times bureau chief there in 1968. Frankel picked up a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his dispatches from China, the same year he took over...
General Antonio de Spinola, who assumed the presidency of Portugal after the military coup last April, would like to be regarded as the liberator of his country. Unfortunately, Portugal has been drifting rapidly toward chaos ever since the revolt. The question now is whether fear of anarchy may force Spinola-like so many generals before him-to impose dictatorship on his country in the name of law and order...
...Though he had never seen a hockey game in his life, he went to work rounding up owners for a new twelve-team league. When the Miami franchise started to buckle, he negotiated a move to Philadelphia in less than an hour. In Canada he managed to stop a revolt among owners angered by his frequently abrasive negotiating style. "Gary has a great creative imagination," says an associate, "but tact is not his cup of tea." Davidson disagrees. "The Canadian owners told me I was acting like Hitler. All I said was that if they didn't like...
...also difficult simply to dismiss the SLA's political motives if you consider the seriousness of the SLA's political symbolism and the political framework within which its members saw their mission. DeFreeze took the name Cinque, the name of an African slave who led a slave ship revolt in 1839. The SLA's food plan resembles the tactics of the Argentine Revolutionary Army of the People, a terrorist group which has successfully demanded food, clothing, and medical equipment in ransom for kidnaped corporation executives. The set of SLA demands to Randolph Hearst involved no payments...