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investigation (iou) and Abbas, Mahmoud (sh)


investigation (iou)



investigation noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin investigatio(n-), formed as INVESTIGATE: see -ATION.]
The action or process of investigating; systematic examination; careful research. LME.
G. Cheyne There is scarce a Geometer, but has his own Method of Investigation.
An instance of this; a systematic inquiry; a careful study of a particular subject. L18.
J. Thurber A recent investigation of the worries and concerns of five thousand selected Americans. N. Symington The central area of Freud's investigations was the unconscious.
investi'gational adjective E20.

Abbas, Mahmoud (sh)




also called Abu Mazen

born 1935, Zefat, Palestine [now in Israel]

Palestinian leader.

Abbas earned a law degree from the University of Damascus and a doctorate in history from Moscow State University. In the late 1950s he was one of the founders of Fatah, which spearheaded the Palestinian armed struggle and dominated the Palestine Liberation Organization. In the 1990s Abbas shaped Palestinian negotiating strategy in peace talks that led in 1993 to the Oslo Accords, in which Israel and the Palestinians extended to each Other mutual recognition and which called for Israel to cede some authority over the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. He briefly served as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority in 2003 and was elected its president in 2005.