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...Palestinians are seen by other Arabs with a combination of fear, suspicion, guilt and pride," says Sociologist Sari Nasir of Amman University. The Palestinians return these ambivalent feelings. In the "Black September of 1970," Arafat's guerrillas, fearing that Jordan was usurping their power, turned against King Hussein's troops, lost a bloody ten-day battle, and were forced to move their base of operations from Jordan to Lebanon. Beginning in 1975, they took an active role in the Lebanese civil war. The Syrians first intervened against them, not wanting the Palestinians and the Lebanese leftists to gain...
...Sari Abuljubein, owner of the cinema, was unavailable for comment yesterday...
After receiving congratulations from Ram and Singh, Mrs. Gandhi proceeded to New Delhi's imposing Parliament House. Dressed for the occasion in a shiny new red and gold sari, she received bouquets of roses and garlands of white flowers from the 350 legislators who had been elected under her leadership. President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy then formally invited her to form a government...
...villagers of Rae Bareli in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the vigorous woman in the beige sari electioneering under a roadside arbor was a haunting apparition from India's political past. Raising an orange-colored bullhorn, she repeated her blunt and simple slogan: "Banish poverty!" Seizing upon the issue of most urgent concern to her peasant audience-the high price of onions -she promised not only to fight inflation but to bring the bounty of the welfare state closer to home. "I don't know whether you've had any government aid here," she shouted grandly...
Tiny but hardly fragile, she flew tourist class, praying briefly before the jet touched down at Oslo's Fornebu Airport. Dressed as always in blue-trimmed white sari and sandals, with a threadbare wool overcoat her only concession to subfreezing temperatures, Serbian-born Mother Teresa, 69, the "angel of the slums" of Calcutta, arrived to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At her request, the Nobel committee eschewed the traditional banquet after the presentation and donated the $7,000 that the dinner for 135 would have cost to her Calcutta-based Missionaries of Charity, who will use the money...