Word: seif
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Elsewhere as well, terrorist violence continued. At Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq-based Palestinian gunmen accidentally killed the local Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Seif Bin Ghobash. Their presumed target: Syria's visiting Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam. In a remote region of northwestern Africa, guerrillas of the Polisario front, which is seeking independence for the former province of Spanish Sahara, kidnaped two French nationals in Mauritania, bringing to 13 the number of French hostages they are believed to be holding somewhere in Algeria. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Paris, French Defense Minister Yvon...
...Leila Abou Seif, 31, a TV director who uses Western cinematic techniques to explore Egyptian themes. Her latest film is Egypt's favorite subject now: a moving paean to the wounded soldiers of the October...
...values of Islam." Gaddafi still lives in a barren two-room apartment at the Aziziya army barracks with his second wife Safiya, a former nurse whom he met two years ago while he was recovering from an automobile accident. She has presented him with a son, whom he named Seif al-Islam (sword of Islam), and is expecting a second child. Gaddafi's father lives in a shack in one of Tripoli's slums, and Gaddafi has vowed that "he will be the last to have a house," meaning that everyone else must be properly housed before...