Word: salleh
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Early one morning last week, Philippine Brigadier General Teodulfo Bautista, accompanied by 34 of his men (including five colonels), strode trustingly into the tiny marketplace of Patikul on Jolo Island, some 600 miles south of Manila. Bautista, 49, had come to Patikul for peace talks with Osman Salleh, a local chieftain of the Moro National Liberation Front, which has been fighting a civil war in the southern islands for nearly five years. Salleh had hinted that his 150 men were ready to join the government's side. As he greeted Bautista with a smile, a harsh voice shouted, "Dapal...
...Salleh Daud flicked an ash from his Lucky Strike...
...Salleh Daud, having just viewed a panoramic perspective of Harvard University from atop the 15th floor of William James Hall, remarked that he was going to write a news story on his visit after he returned to Malaysia...
...Harris Salleh, Minister of Finance, in the state of Sabah in Malaysia, works with a people who have the same culture; the problem is strengthening the central government
...citizens of Haji Salleh village naturally became alarmed. Something, the people said, has cast a spell over the girls and they sent for some local bomohs (medicine men) to drive the evil away. The first delegation of bomohs failed miserably: after the girls returned from their Hari Raya Haji holiday (20 days before the Moslem New Year), they went on a rampage again. Another six bomohs came, but after prayers, incantations and trances, announced that the evil spirit was much greater than they. One bomoh decided that the spirit must lodge in a certain rubber tree, ordered the tree...