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Nor is the refugees' arrival the only major crisis confronting Sudan and its beleaguered President. Plagued by the same lack of rainfall and economic mismanagement that have devastated Ethiopia, up to a quarter of Sudan's 21 million citizens are facing the threat of extreme hunger in the months ahead...
One month before he was assassinated, in 1981, President Anwar Sadat ordered the detention of Shenouda, eight bishops and 22 parish priests, accusing them of fomenting unrest. Since then, Shenouda has been forced to live at the 4th century Monastery of St. Bishoi, in the desert northwest of Cairo. In...
Iran did have the power to exert religious and psychological pressure on the Islamic militants. Not all the pro-Iranian factions of militant Lebanese Shi'ites appeared to be in agreement with the hijackers' tactics. A man claiming to represent Islamic Jihad, a shadowy group that is thought...
After temporarily breaking off all radio contact on Friday, the terrorists called the control tower and demanded that Iranian officials broadcast a statement over the Arabic service of the Voice of the Islamic Revolution. Iran willingly complied. The hijackers called for the release from Kuwaiti prisons of their "innocent brothers...
The Swiss alerted the Italian secret service, which immediately swung into action. In a predawn raid, agents broke into two apartments in the seaside resort of Ladispoli, 24 miles northwest of Rome. There they rounded up seven young Lebanese, all students at the University of Rome. In the apartments the...