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...from the Washington-based International Center for Development Policy, a left-of-center think tank, paid a private visit to the ravaged country. Robert E. White, a former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, headed the tour. Over the span of a week, the group visited Kabul and Mazar-i- Sharif, a surprisingly peaceful city of more than 100,000 people on Afghanistan's border with the Soviet Union. One stop on the I.C.D.P. tour was a large, blue-tiled mosque, where about 1,500 men listened as a stooped, aged mullah read from the Koran. When several worshipers turned...
Several Palestinian leaders immediately blamed the Israelis for the assassination. Bassam Abu Sharif, the spokesman for P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, charged that Israeli leaders, frustrated by their inability to quell the Palestinian uprisings, had decided to "liquidate" senior P.L.O. members. Arafat, on a tour of the gulf states in search of support for the protest activities, was described as badly shaken by the slaying of his heir apparent...
Police arrested more than 30 Moslem worshipers in the compound of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosques on Temple Mount, which is sacred to both Moslems and Jews. The hill is known in Arabic as Harim es-Sharif, or Noble Enclosure...
...general commands respect, if not admiration, from many Pakistanis, and has been able to sustain healthy growth in the country's economy. Last week his backers sought to blunt the effect of Bhutto's return by awarding some political favors. Prime Minister Junejo and Punjab Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that, effective immediately, new land would be granted to rural tenants and urban squatters and the price of cooking oil would be reduced...
...seven months of filming in the Soviet Union. Problems cropped up almost immediately. First the production's entire supply of wigs was lost for 3 1/2 weeks. The crew found Soviet accommodations to be spartan, transportation unreliable and toilet paper rough. "I had a miserable time," says Omar Sharif, who plays one of Peter's advisers. Bored with meals of beet-root salads, chicken and potatoes, Sharif took a trip to Paris and brought back cans of tuna, which he ate at night alone in his room...