Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week some additional facts came to light. The princess in question was Mashall bint Abdul Aziz, 23, whose arranged marriage had gone sour. She had fallen in love with Musleh al Sha'er, the nephew of the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali al Sha'er. When their perilous affair was threatened with exposure, they obtained forged passports and attempted to flee the country by air. The princess disguised herself as a man, but was apprehended with her lover when security police at Jeddah airport glimpsed a suspiciously full-busted silhouette under the would-be traveler's traditional flowing thobe...
...other pressure is applied as well. Last month Iranian Major General Ahmed Mogharebi confessed that he had spied for the KGB after Soviet agents threatened to reveal his past membership in Iran's outlawed Communist Party, Tudeh. The leader of the Iranian spy ring, a government official named Ali-Naghi Rabbani, had sophisticated radio equipment for receiving Soviet satellite transmissions in his home. Rabbani's clandestine contact was the Soviet consul in Tehran, Boris Kabanov, who was expelled from the country. Both Mogharebi and Rabbani were sentenced to death; late last month Mogharebi was executed by a firing...
...Egypt's President, Sadat faced his first deadly challenge: an attempted coup by Leftist Ali Sabry and a group of ministers who confronted Sadat with a list of demands. But Sadat has often outwitted his enemies by encouraging them to underestimate him. His poker face showed nothing, and his rivals left unaware of their danger. He swiftly jailed them...
...ball to a teammate for a triumphant spike. At the end of last season, he also handed each offensive lineman more tangible evidence of his gratitude: a gold watch. Declares Payton: "Maybe it's all right to brag if you're Billie Jean King or Muhammad Ali. But I'm in a team sport. It takes ten more guys, and I don't see why I should rip all the glory." Payton first attracted attention at Mississippi's all-black Jackson State, which became a magnet for pro scouts as he set an N.C.A.A. scoring...
Plimpton was rewarded with a bloody nose and a story. But an eight-minute fight cannot be spun out for more than a few chapters, and most of Shadow Box is more or less conventional, and excellent, sports reporting. The chapters on Muhammad Ali are delightful, and Ali is not easy to write about, as Wilfrid Sheed and Norman Mailer have amply proved...