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...more likely strategy, if the rebels do not divide and self-destruct, is a slow and steady strangulation of the major cities. "We want to collapse the city from within," explains Abdul Haq, a powerful commander whose men are positioned around Kabul. Key targets include the shutdown of airports, the closure of the government's arms pipeline and the cutting of the Salang Highway, the 264-mile road that stretches from Kabul into Soviet territory...
...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...
...what? Has the Chicago Bulls' star been traded to the host New York Knickerbockers? Nice dream, if you're a New Yorker; nightmare, if a Chicagoan. Is he retiring and, like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, making his farewell appearances? Maybe he'll hang up the Air Jordans in a decade or two, but certainly not now. So what's all the fuss about? Simply that this is the first time during the 1988-89 season that the world's most exciting basketball player is visiting New York. A JORDAN FOR PRESIDENT sign even appears in the stands, a semiserious calling...
...regime considers itself a victim of terrorism in the shoot-out of ( 1986, so it has written new rules. According to Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz Ad-dali, it now strictly adheres to United Nations terrorism standards. "Revolutionaries like members of the P.L.O. or the African National Congress are welcome," he said, "but you will not find one terrorist here...
...FATHER Abdul-Wahhab Tbeilah, 58, is a generation removed from the young men who started the revolt, and did not think like them when the uprising erupted. His political sensibilities, like those of other older men in Nablus, had dulled after 21 years of occupation. An auto mechanic, he worked hard to keep his large family in their 400-year-old two-room ancestral home in the Casbah of Nablus. He lived for his children, hoping they would be educated enough someday to become doctors and teachers. Then politics intruded into his quiet life and, given the frequent general strikes...