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...everyone in Taif is idle, of course. With critical chores to perform, the Finance Ministry, for one, churns almost around the clock. The Finance Minister, Sheik Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah, 45, known to all as Abu Khalifa -- and to a few close friends as Ali Cash -- is highly regarded among both Kuwaitis and foreigners. "He can sell you the shirt off your back while you're wearing it," says a friend, affectionately. "He is absolutely one of the smartest, shrewdest people I have ever...
Both Khaleda and her partner in the movement's leadership, Sheik Hasina Wazed, now stand a good chance of ruling their desperately poor, densely ) populated Muslim homeland of 110 million. Hasina, 43, is a daughter of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the 19-year-old nation's founding father, while Khaleda, 46, is the widow of Ziaur Rahman, the South Asian country's military ruler from 1975 to 1981. Both leaders were assassinated in army revolts...
...turbulent politics of Bangladesh, demonstrators thronged the streets of Dhaka, the capital, and were sporadically dispersed by soldiers wielding batons and tear-gas canisters even as they fortified themselves with makeshift barricades. The government ordered the arrest of the two women who head the main opposition groups -- Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party -- but the two remained undaunted. As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina: "Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall not leave...
...steal Port's wallet, and a loathsome Englishman filches his passport. What other atrocities can he imagine? Perhaps that he will sweat out a typhoid fever in a miserable cell in a Foreign Legion garrison? Or that his wife will lose her wits as the love slave of the sheik of Araby...
...religious protests were led by Sheik Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, chief of the Presidency of Islamic Research, Ruling, Call and Guidance, an organization that rules on questions of dogma. Ibn Baz earned a certain notoriety in the 1960s by insisting that the sun revolved around the earth. He subsequently modified that view after a Saudi astronaut flew in a space shuttle and broadcast back TV images providing evidence to the contrary...