Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that no distinction could be drawn between tests for peaceful purposes and those for arms development. Many diplomats feared that the test would help spur other nations with technical know-how into accelerating their efforts to join the nuclear club. As if to confirm that fear, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan warned that if India builds the bomb, "we will eat leaves and grass, even go hungry, but we will have to get one of our own. We have no alternative." At least eight other nations have the capability of producing nuclear weapons, but only three of these...
Inside the bunker, Brigadier General Ali Hussein, the Syrian sector commander, offered us tea and baklava. Hussein, who spent one year training in the U.S. at Fort Benning, explained that in former days "the Arabs and Jews lived with each other. They used to love each other. But then came Israel and forced the Arabs out. Then came the feeling of hostility...
...days later he was not at Peking airport to welcome President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan. When Bhutto was ushered into Chairman Mao Tse-tung's book-lined study for a ceremonial audience, Chou relinquished his customary place of honor at Mao's right hand to Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping and sat on Mao's left instead. Chou conducted two hours of energetic negotiations with Bhutto the following day but excused himself from attending a banquet that evening, explaining, "I am not very well because...
...state: newspapers were censored, telephones tapped and xenophobia was so encouraged that uncomfortable foreign businessmen went home. Today the concentration camps are empty. Moreover, fewer telephones are tapped, and the secret police are at least less visible. The new editor of the semi official Cairo daily al Ahram is Ali Amin, a journalist who spent nine years in exile during the Nasser era because he opposed the regime...
...Steve McQueen came to the rescue. Rehearsing for his role as fire chief in The Towering Inferno, McQueen had been training on another lot with Peter Lucarelli, battalion chief of the Los Angeles fire department. When Lucarelli sped off to the real fire, Steve tagged along, followed by Wife Ali McGraw. Donning helmet and coat, he joined firefighters and helped pull the hoses into line. "It's on-the-job training," said a proud but anxious Ali from a safe distance. As for Steve, he proved something of a distraction. One smoke-choked and begrimed L.A.F.D. member...