Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interests-everything but the words "Place Commercial Here" between chapters. In other words, Bulliet makes no grand assumptions about his readers' intelligence. There's even a map--a simplified one at that--of the Middle East on the flyleaf, for those readers who just can't keep all those Arabian nations straight (though the Persian Gulf itself is confusingly labeled Bahrain...
...lecture circuit this month... A. Leon judge of the U.S. Third-Circuit Court of Appeal, will open the 1984 W.E.B. DuBois Lectures on April 9 in Boylston Auditorium. The five-part lecture series, which will conclude in October, will cover "The Legitimization of Racism". . mean while tonight the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Status. Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Kennedy School Forum on "Peace in the Middle East...
Gemayel made no public announcement that he was scrapping the accord. He simply accepted an eight-point Saudi Arabian peace plan that includes abrogation of the May 17 pact; Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal then delivered it to the Syrians. Other points called for a ceasefire, a negotiated simultaneous pullout of Israeli and Syrian forces coupled with security guarantees to Israel, and a reconstitution of Gemayel's Christian-dominated government to give a much greater share of power to his Muslim opponents...
...security plan, which is being worked out with the aid of Syrian and Saudi Arabian envoys, calls for the Lebanese Army to move south from Beirut to the Awali River, where the Israeli occupation zone begins, and north toward the port city of Tripoli, which the Syrians dominate. Lebanese police forces would patrol the hills above Beirut, the Chouf Mountains and the volatile southern suburbs. By moving equally into both Muslim and Christian strongholds, the government hopes to silence the guns of the warring militias...
...collecting is my great sickness." Alliance's Manhattan headquarters resembles a museum, its long corridors full of drawings and etchings by such American masters as Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. While working as a chemical engineer at Esso (now Exxon) in 1959, Williams started a collection of Saudi Arabian stamps...