Word: anwar
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Aaron and BreZe, however, are only the headliners of pre-teen pop; a great many other agent-dependent, pre-pubescent boys and girls are being recruited and transformed into pop stars by record companies around the world. In Bangkok, 12-year-old half-Scottish, half-Indonesian Anan Anwar is shooting to the top of the charts with hits "Go To School" and "Simon Says." Triple Shake and Best Frenz are two more pop creations whose members are too young to see PG-13 movies but old enough to suggestively sway their underdeveloped hips...
...security services detained an American of Arab origin for forty days in 1998. After his release, he claimed both that he was tortured and that the United States Consulate General in Jerusalem, charged with the protection of American citizens in other countries, did nothing to prevent it. The American, Anwar Mohammed of Orlando, Fla., accuses American consular officials of ignoring the physical evidence of his mistreatment and of not attending the Israeli military court that authorized the security services to hold him for further questioning...
CONVICTED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, 53, Malaysia's deposed Deputy Prime Minister, arrested after challenging his mentor, Mahathir Mohamad, who has ruled for 19 years; of sodomy; and sentenced to nine years in prison; in Kuala Lumpur. Human-rights groups condemned the 14-month trial, in which prosecutors changed the date of the alleged crime twice after alibis were produced...
...staying at the four-bedroom Aspen cottage. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is in Dogwood, Arafat is in Birch, and the delegations all dine together in Laurel. The place is so spread out that some of the participants tool around in golf carts. One Aha! revelation: in 1978, Anwar Sadat stayed in Dogwood, and Menachem Begin was in Birch. Everyone's pondering the significance of this switcheroo...
...Camp David" was once a code word for Mideast peace breakthroughs, and President Clinton may be hoping that its aura rubs off on Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak when he hosts a make-or-break summit there next week. But while the historic 1977 meeting between President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menahem Begin may have produced an Israeli-Egyptian peace deal that became the crowning achievement of the Carter administration, President Clinton's confab looks like little more than a last-minute Hail Mary pass...