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Born to a prosperous farming family in Tikrit, a small town 100 miles northwest of Baghdad, Saddam as a student eagerly joined the nationalist ferment against Iraq's pro-Western monarchy. In 1959, under sentence of death in absentia for his involvement in an assassination attempt against President Abdul Karim Kassem, a general who had seized power the year before, Saddam fled to Syria and Egypt. In Cairo he studied law and joined the Baath Party, a revolutionary group of Arab nationalists. He returned to Iraq in 1963, and by the time the Baathists staged their 1968 coup under...
...ABSCAM it turns out, is not short for "Arab scam," as widely reported. At the request of the American-Arab Relations Committee, Judge George C. Pratt, presiding at the trial, announced that the acronym actually stands for "Abdul scam," after Abdul Enterprises Ltd., the bogus import-export firm that the agents used as their front...
...sniffing, heavy-drinking chain-smoking director of the Chicago airport. Mixed in with the emergency, as one might guess, is a romance between the Air Force pilot turned taxi driver, played by the ingenuous Robert Hays, and the stewardess who takes over the co-pilot's chair from Kareem Abdul-Jabar. Julie Hagarty plays the sallow, teary type--she's sure to snag a nighttime sitcom role from this appearance...
...frugal 1941). Its plot is an admitted rip-off of an even earlier example of the imperiled-airliner genre, 1957's Zero Hour. What is particular to the new film is its jostling comic inventiveness and pitch-black humor. The pilot and co-pilot (Peter Graves and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) are stricken, in flight, by food poisoning. There is another pilot (Robert Hays) aboard, but having led his squadron into disaster during combat, he is afraid to fly. Before finally agreeing to land the plane, he passes the time telling his sad, tedious story to fellow passengers, many...
...OPEC ministers departed from last week's meeting, they left no doubt that they will start raising prices again just as soon as world petroleum demand permits. The group will meet in September and could then return to its old ways. Said Libyan Oil Minister Abdul Salam Zagaar: "The ceiling is going to be $37 until September, and then we will see what the market will...