Word: aly
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Rawson is no stranger to the commission, having served on it from 1958 to 1964. "I was sitting on the commission when Cassius Clay--now he's Muhammad Ali--was going to fight Sonny Liston," Rawson said, explaining that the fight never took place because Clay discovered a hernia injury the day of the weigh...
...some of the heads of radical Arab states, which refuse to grant Israel the right to exist, never wanted to attend the summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi made it known that he would boycott the session. So did Algeria's Bendjedid Chadli, Marxist South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place...
...farmhouse they found and arrested Boston. Wisely, she did not resist. Surrounding the house was a small army of 50 G-men, four SWAT teams, two tanks and, overhead, two helicopters. Another 50 agents and two more tanks were stationed near by. Boston, who prefers the name Fulani Sunni-Ali to what she calls her "slave name," is the minister of information for the R.N.A. The farmhouse was apparently used by the group to give paramilitary training to teenagers...
...challenge the mind. Each issue contains about a dozen lavish photo tours of opulent homes that have been transformed by top interior decorators. Average decorating budget: $200,000. Frequent peeks into celebrity homes add to the vicarious thrills. In recent years Digest readers have visited the likes of Ali MacGraw, Robert Redford, Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand. Says Rense: "Digest is an elitist magazine. But I don't think there is anything wrong with being rich...
...AlI in all, I think they have seen fine meetings and I think great progress has been made." So said Ronald Reagan last week about the summit in Cancún, Mexico, where he met leaders from seven other industrialized nations and 14 developing nations. Billed as the first dialogue between the mostly rich Northern Hemisphere and the mostly poor South, the conference was intended to seek ways in which the haves could help the have-nots climb out of poverty. Yet the meeting broke up with no real achievements, and little consensus other than that the U.S. cannot...