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Life in Sudan Worsened Under Mahdi;Deposed Prime Minister Was Considered Man of Many Words but Little Action
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When Sadiq Mahdi was elected prime minister of Sudan three years
ago, Africa's largest country was hobbled by a ruinous civil war, a
bankrupt economy and a bitter dispute over a harsh code of Islamic
law.
When soldiers drove Mahdi off to prison this morning, as part of
what appears to have been a carefully organized military coup in
Khartoum, the same three problems hobbled Sudan. If anything, they
were worse.
The 53-year-old Mahdi, educated at Oxford and the great-grandson
of Sudan's greatest hero, the fabled Mahdi who routed the British in
1885, was exceptionally eloquent in discussing ...
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Nineveh: Papers of the [XLIX.sup.e] Rencontre Assyriologique International, London, 7-11 July 2003.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; Nineveh: Papers of the [XLIX.sup.e] Rencontre...anniversary. The theme of the Rencontre, "Nineveh," chosen to highlight the museum's...one appropriately concerns the city of Nineveh itself. Marc Van De Mie-roop's "A...
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Istar of Nineveh reconsidered
Magazine article from: Journal of Cuneiform Studies
; ...to the study of the goddess Istar of Nineveh (1957),1 a deity found not only in...millennium Anatolia, among whom Istar of Nineveh enjoyed particular prominence. The earliest mention of Nineveh of which I am aware is in a text from...
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POLITICS-IRAQ: WITNESSES DESCRIBE BALLOT FRAUD IN NINEVEH
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...ballot fraud by Kurdish authorities in Nineveh province, the key to the outcome of the...stations in various non-Kurdish areas of Nineveh and created a climate of fear and intimidation...the vote against the constitution on the Nineveh plain. They also support Sunni charges...
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You Walked in Nineveh.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Midstream
; ...Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles) In Nineveh in the filthy streets of the ancient city...the sanctuary where the chazan sang In Nineveh, now Mosul, you bent low to enter that...found as you walked through Mosul, once Nineveh: shattered and sewage-smeared homes...
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SECTARIAN STRIFE SKIPS NINEVEH PROVINCE, STRYKER TEAM COMMANDER SAYS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Shiites in Baghdad has seemingly bypassed Nineveh province in northern Iraq, a U.S...seen that level of sectarian violence in Nineveh province," said Col. Michael Shields...fall of 2004, the Iraqi police force in Nineveh province "had collapsed," he noted...
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'Palace without a rival'.(Nineveh, Assyria)(King Sennacherib)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...on the east bank of the Tigris River, Nineveh was the last great capital of the Assyrian...earlier kings had built at the site, Nineveh did not reach its height of power and...years--between 705 and 690 B.C.--Nineveh was enclosed by an enormous wall more...
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Kurdish-Sunni Tensions In Nineveh.
Newspaper article from: APS Review Gas Market Trends
; ...Kurdish-Sunni Arab tensions are boiling in Nineveh, the north-Western province which includes...government's sovereignty over all of Nineveh, have pressured districts under their...hundreds of armed Kurds stopped the Nineveh police chief, a Sunni Arab, from crossing...
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30,000 families displaced from Iraq's Nineveh since 2003 war: official
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; ...000 families displaced from Iraq's Nineveh since 2003 war: official 30,000 families displaced from Iraq's Nineveh since 2003 war: official MOSUL, Iraq...been displaced from northern Iraq's Nineveh province since the U.S.- led war...
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News From Nineveh
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the back of the head. . . . Tal Afar is in the province of Nineveh . . . (AP) There's been an atrocity in Nineveh. You may recognize the name. Iraq's history is deep. And Nineveh has known atrocities before. Jonah of the Bible traveled...
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One with Nineveh.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Ecos
; ...all our pomp of yesterday / Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!'), written at the height...By 612 BC, the great capital city of Nineveh, pride of Assyria, lay in ruins...of Mosul on the Tigris River. One with Nineveh is a wakeup call to all of the world...
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