Word: yusef
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Although I agree with most of what Peter Charles Mulcahy has to say, I take exception to his facile characterization of, as he calls him, Cat “Peace Train” Stevens (Comment, “The War on (Yusef) Islam,” Sept. 27). Stevens managed to take time out from warbling “Moonshadow” to support the fatwa again Salman Rushdie, whose sins are really limited to an excessive fondness for topical celebrity gossip. To be sure, Stevens was quick to assure the press that he was not encouraging...
...DEPORTED. YUSEF ISLAM, 56, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, whose string of hits in the 1960s included Peace Train, Wild World and Morning has Broken; from the United States; after his United Airlines flight from London to Washington was diverted to Bangor, Maine, when U.S. officials discovered he was on the no-fly list for having suspected ties to terrorists. He returned to London, saying, "The whole thing is totally ridiculous," and vows to challenge...
CLEARED. ANTRON MCCRAY, 28, KEVIN RICHARDSON, 28, YUSEF SALAAM, 28, KHAREY WISE, 30, and RAYMOND SANTANA, 28; of their convictions in the savage 1989 rape and beating of a banker jogging in New York City's Central Park, for which all have served prison time; after new evidence convinced the prosecutors that the sole offender was another man, Matias Reyes; by a New York Supreme Court judge...
...nightmare: a young, white female stockbroker goes jogging in the park and is raped, beaten and left near dead by a giddy horde of teenagers. Within days, five black and Hispanic teenagers, ages 14 to 16, were arrested and charged with the crime. The teens--Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Kharey Wise--had been part of a larger rampage in which several people were randomly attacked in the park that night. The boys described it as wilding, and four of them confessed on videotape that the jogger had been one of their victims. They later recanted...
...military imperative to crush the enemy at all costs?and by any method. As a slogan daubed on a military bunker in Aceh puts it: We love peace?but we love unity more. "As long as there is GAM to fight, TNI brutality will not end," says M. Yusef Puteh, director of FP HAM's East Aceh branch. "I'm beginning to think that what they're doing here has the blessing of the central government. It will forgive the soldiers anything...