Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty. In 1968 Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was shot during a kidnaping attempt. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr. was murdered in 1973, when members of the Palestinian Black September group seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and took six diplomats hostage. The terrorists surrendered three days later, but not before killing Noel and two other hostages. In 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies was shot to death during a Greek Cypriot attack...
...Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) source reported during the weekend that the PLO was negotiating with Iranian officials and student representatives. Salah Khalaf, a PLO leader, said yesterday the negotiators had given up and left Tehran...
...about two dozen exhibitors. Diplomatically, too, the government is trying to change its former image as a radical regime. At last spring's Baghdad conference of Arab states, Saddam Hussein signed a communique that tacitly accepted United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 as a basis for solving the Palestinian question. Iraq's action, say Middle East experts, was an intriguing modification of its traditionally strong anti-Israel position as a leader of the so-called Arab rejectionist front...
...fedayeen and the Mafia. It begins 20 years before the uranium theft, at, of all places, Oxford University. By not too improbable coincidence, three of the protagonists are students there: David Rostov, a Soviet who will later become an ambitious intelligence officer in Moscow; Yasif Hassan, a Palestinian who subsequently serves as a triple agent for the Egyptians, the Soviets and the fedayeen; and Nathaniel Dickstein, a cockney Jew who migrates to Israel and wins fame as his adopted country's most resourceful...
...Sunday morning at Oxford, Al Cortone, a discharged G.I., catches up with Dickstein, who as a wartime tommy had saved his life in Sicily. The Soviet, the Palestinian, the Jew and the Yank meet over sherry at the house of Stephen Ashford, professor of Semitic literature, and his ravishing Lebanese wife. The Ashfords' small daughter Suza is there too. Over the amontillado, conversations come and go, foreshadowing characters' destinies...