Word: wasfi
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Married. Princess Alia of Jordan. 21, for whom the Jordanian national airline was named by her father, King Hussein; and Nasser Wasfi Mirza, 32, a member of the royal Cabinet; both for the first time; near Amman...
Engaged. Princess Alia, 21, oldest daughter of Jordan's King Hussein; and Nasser Wasfi Mirza, 32, a member of the royal Cabinet and son of a former government minister. Alia, after whom the Jordanian national airline was named, is an English literature student at the University of Jordan...
...largely inhabited by Palestinians, a garaged Datsun suddenly exploded in a shower of metal. The owner could not under stand why, but the police could. In the same garage stood another Datsun owned by Ziad Helou, one of four men identified as the assassins who shot down Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell out side the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel...
...these circumstances, the bitterest and most extreme of the fedayeen have turned to Black September. It surfaced for the first time last November in Cairo, where four terrorists boldly assassinated Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell as he entered the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel. Tell was a pro-Western Arab interested in negotiating with Israel; his killers are out of jail on bail awaiting a trial that has yet to be scheduled. Since that time, Black September teams have also murdered five Jordanians living in West Germany whom they suspected of spying for Israel; attempted to assassinate Jordan's ambassador to London...
...wealthy Palestinians. Whether Arafat knows what goes on is a closely held secret. Many young commandos now consider Arafat a reactionary, and they may deliberately ignore him when laying their plans. Associates say that Arafat was genuinely surprised and upset when he was told of the assassination of Wasfi Tell-though that could have been an act to deflect criticism from himself...