Word: sadi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Said Sadi, 48, a psychiatrist from the mountainous Kabylie region, came in third, with 10% of the vote. Sadi has built his political career on opposition to the government and abhorrence of political Islam. His deep hatred for the F.I.S.' charismatic No. 2, Ali Belhadj, goes back to the 1980s when the men were imprisoned together. Legend has it that Belhadj promised to cut Sadi's throat if the Islamists ever came to power. "Fundamentalism is like death," Sadi told supporters. "You try it only once." At Sadi's instigation, the government has allowed Algerian peasants to establish village "self...
...furtive desert bivouacs are over. The grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow the men of the P.L.O. to carry them is still undecided...
...Jordan who have wives and children but are in their late 20s and early 30s, too young to have fought in the Arab-Israeli wars. ("It is impossible that they are on any Israeli blacklist," says an instructor.) "We're going to Jericho as policemen, not as soldiers," Al Sadi reminds his men. "Being a policeman is much harder. The policeman has to help everyone -- no matter what his nationality -- and forget about his own identity and feelings...
With Israeli and Palestinian extremists opposing the autonomy agreement, the police cadets' riot-control training may prove more useful than courses in directing traffic. And so far, recruits have not been instructed on dealings with Israeli settlers and security forces. Al Sadi brushes aside the possibility of politically charged, violent confrontation. "We can solve things through dialogue," he insists. "Our job is to protect people and prevent crime...
Iraq's National Assembly has no record ofvetoing decisions by Saddam, but reporters counted18 of 250 delegates voting yesterday againstallowing the foreigners to leave. The assemblyspeaker, Sadi Mehdi Saleh, said he counted only 15hands...