Word: taha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London, Palestinians tossed a hand grenade beneath the limousine of Iraqi Ambassador Taha Ahmed Daoud outside his embassy in Kensington. Daoud, luckily, was inside the embassy, bidding his staff farewell before leaving for reassignment in Saudi Arabia. London police arrested two Palestinian grenade tossers, a man and a woman...
...makes his speech unintelligible and his gestures childlike at times, say visitors to Peking, but Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, still rises to the occasion when it comes time to pose with guests like Thailand's Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj and Iraq's Vice President Taha Moheddin Maruf. More mobile, obviously, is the Chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, 61, who surfaced last week in Shansi province to make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed...
...ignored each other, staring blankly into space or at Siilasvuo. Eventually, he passed out the giant blue folders containing the nine articles of accord and accompanying maps for a second-stage disengagement agreement between Israeli and Egyptian forces in Sinai. Without comment, representatives of each side−Major General Taha Maghdoub for the Egyptians and Ambassador-designate to Paris and longtime Prime Ministerial Adviser Mordechai Gazit for the Israelis−signed. After Siilasvuo signed on behalf of the U.N., he asked, "The ceremony is over. Are there any points to be raised?" The delegates shook their heads. Then, as stiffly...
...Links. Actually, the biggest aspidistra had been sent because the talks were bogging down. The men charged with plotting preliminary military disengagement at Geneva-Israeli General Mordechai Gur and General Taha El Magdoub of Egypt-had done well enough with the "technical models" that they proposed for separating forces in Sinai. The difficulty was that on both sides, the proposed military moves were inextricably connected to political decisions that neither general could make.Thus, after two meetings last week, totaling 3½ hours at Geneva's Palais des Nations, the military talks adjourned and discussions shifted home...
...Union and the U.S., had opened the first formal Middle East peace talks since 1949. But after the top diplomats went home, it was the turn of the generals to grapple with the technicalities and tactics of disengagement. How successfully Major General Mordechai Gur of Israel and Brigadier General Taha El Mag-doub of Egypt dealt with those details would set the pace of negotiations...