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...sheikh also said that he couldn't predict the nationality of the next hostage freed. Speculation has focused on Jack Mann, a 77-year-old former Royal Air Force pilot who has been missing for two years...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Cleric Urges One-Time Hostage Swap | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...statements made after Arafat's recent initiatives. Arafat's deputy, Saleh' Khalef, recently told a Kuwaiti newspaper, "the establishment of a Palestininan state in any part of Palestine has as its goal the establishment of a Palestinian state in all of Palestine." The chairman of the Palestinian National Council, Sheikh Abdul Hanid el Haya, agreed, "We should take and then demand more...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: A Decision Fit for Solomon | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

...Elway, though maybe also on the foot of Rich Karlis. If Karlis had made a couple of makable field goals in the first half of last year's Super Bowl, the game could have been much different. The Redskins' kicking game has been so shaky, Ali Haji-Sheikh and Jess Atkinson were still fighting for the job last week. The loser will have a hard time finding a ticket in San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Tangle of Broncos and Redskins | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Included on the guest list were Sens. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Supreme Court Justices Harry A. Blackmun '29 and William J. Brennan, Gov. Michael Dukakis, Saudi Arabia's top oil man, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and the Aga Khan '58. Members of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, Radcliffe Trustees, several prominent faculty members, Bok's children and selected alumni were also invited...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Beginning is Formal, Frivolous | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

When the soldiers left Cairo International Airport Wednesday evening, a quirk of fate saved Private First Class Eric Harrington of Lake City, Fla. The unhappy soldier could not find his passport, and he was sent back to Sharm el Sheikh to await this week's rotation home. His buddies departed on a 1,900- mile flight to Cologne, West Germany, where the DC-8 landed for a 90-minute refueling stop. Security there was described as tight. After a 2,700-mile Atlantic crossing, the plane touched down at Gander to refuel again for the final, 1,700-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the Screaming Eagles | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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