Word: kaffiyehs
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...historic section of Galveston, Texas. She was not alarmed; there were three locks on the front door, there was no back door, and the apartment was 18 ft. above ground level. But as she went to check an open window, a bare-chested black man wearing an Arab-style kaffiyeh over his head pressed a knife to her throat. He ransacked the apartment, put pillowcases over both women's heads, and raped the friend...
...film of their President strolling through factories, bouncing babies on his knees, chatting with peasants-all to the soft strains of Tchaikovsky. Of late, in further pursuit of popularity, Saddam has even traded in his natty, British-tailored suits for a military fatigue jacket, pistol belt and red-checked kaffiyeh, making him look rather like an Arabic Fidel Castro...
Arafat, who will probably head whatever Palestinian state may eventually emerge, still wears the kaffiyeh headdress and battle fatigues that are his trademark. But his bodyguards, who once sported beards and Kalashnikov assault rifles, are clean-shaven now and resemble Carter's Secret Service, down to the radio earpieces through which they receive orders when Arafat travels. The P.L.O. has even sent a team of potential ambassadors to East Germany to be drilled in diplomacy. But amid the diplomatic moderation, the Palestinians intend to keep pressure on Israel. The P.L.O. continues to train young fighters; Arafat at a recent...
...center for relocation in empty Beirut apartments and villages in southern Lebanon. Mostly they were the very old, the very young or women. "We ran out of water, out of food, out of everything," said one elderly man, Abdullah Youssif Joumah, as he wiped away tears with his white kaffiyeh. Said another: "The boys who were fighting, may God rest their souls, were all killed...
...match his Arabic imagery last week as the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (TIME cover, Nov. 11) concluded an extraordinary 80-minute speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Arafat, dressed in a fawn windbreaker and brown trousers and wearing both his familiar black-and-white checkered kaffiyeh and a pistol holster, which aides insisted was empty, finished his perorations, walked away from the mottled-marble rostrum and clasped his hands over his head in a boxer's victory stance. Led by delegates from Arab nations, the crowded Assembly Hall-the seats were predictably empty at the table...