Word: salman
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...Yuri Zarakhovich. "The rebels, who have lost at least six people in gunfighting, are now battling with federal troops for control of the town's railway station." Five policemen and five civilians have also been killed so far in fighting that raged through the city streets. Led by Salman Raduyev, the son-in-law of Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev, the rebels say they will kill the hostages if Russia does not withdraw troops from Chechnya. The action was reminiscent of a similar incident last June, when Chechen fighters held more than 1,000 hostages in a hospital in the Russian...
...Salman Rushdie made a rare pre-announced public appearance when he spoke at a Writers Against the State forum in London. "This is a very important moment for me, and I hope it will be the first of more such moments," the writer said. Then again, maybe not. The Moor's Last Sigh, Rushdie's new novel, has infuriated Hindu militants in India...
...convey integrated models of social, political and economic behavior...The life of the human race is completely interconnected not only in the informational sense, but in the causal sense as well....We are familiar with CNN and Chernobyl, and we know who the Rolling stones, or Nelson Mandela or Salman Rushdie...
...sounds like a monologue joke: DAVID LETTERMAN'S ratings have dipped so much that SALMAN RUSHDIE hides out on his show. The novelist, introduced as a man "who doesn't get out very often," handed over the Top 10 List on Friday's Late Show in London. "If you need me, I'll be at the London Plaza Hotel," joked Rushdie, who is in hiding from a death sentence under Islamic law. He later talked with Letterman's mom. "Exchanging recipes," said Dave...
TIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighsays Republican congressmen David McIntosh of Indiana and Matt Salman of Arizona are circulating a letter urging the members to drop their opposition. "They regard it as a fig leaf allowing these members to come back into the fold," Burleigh says...