Word: arabian
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...club's greatest player ever; in Barcelona. Before coaching the Spanish national team for 68 games from 1969-1980, the Hungarian-born Kubala helped his club win four league titles and five Spanish Cups. He also played for Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and did brief coaching stints for the Saudi Arabian and Paraguayan national teams. DIED. KHUNYING KANITTHA WICHIENCHAROEN, 82, gutsy lawyer and women's activist; in Bangkok. One of the first women in Thailand to receive a university education, Kanittha devoted her career to battling discrimination against women. Among her triumphs: establishing a shelter for abused women and children...
Already the diplomatic initiative in the region has passed from Washington to, of all places, the normally unwakable Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Crown Prince Abdullah gave Cheney "an earload full" at a private dinner in Houston on Wednesday--urging the Veep to abandon the Administration's pro-Israel tilt. And when Abdullah met with the President in Crawford, Texas, on Thursday, there were even signs that the old Bush charm had lost its purchase. Accounts of the 5-hr. meeting vary dramatically. According to two sources, Abdullah surprised Bush with three handouts--a photo album and two videocassettes--each...
...relatively relaxed on the oil issue, the use of Saudi bases is another matter. The U.S. has significant operations at the Prince Sultan Air Base south of Riyadh, where a superhigh-tech Combined Air Operations Center is situated. The Pentagon is beefing up its presence elsewhere in the Arabian peninsula--in Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and especially Qatar, where a second CAOC is hastily being built. But if the Saudis do not want America to attack Saddam from their territory, the region's smaller states are apt to balk as well. "If the Saudis are not doing it," says...
...street toughs and hoodlums became newly respectable, as defenders of the community and their faith. After the blasts, many of the plotters went "upstairs." I met some of them in Dubai; they spend their days watching Hindi movies, their nights on mobile phones plotting murder and extortion across the Arabian Sea. They speak with enormous nostalgia about Bombay, and with hatred about their new neighbors?the Arabs do not treat South Asians well, and the Pakistanis are suspicious of their new guests. They've left family and friends and the psychedelic magic of the Bombay streets behind. And when...
...Already the diplomatic initiative in the region has passed from Washington to, of all places, the normally unwakable Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Crown Prince Abdullah gave Cheney "an earload full" at a private dinner in Houston on Wednesday - urging the Veep to abandon the Administration's pro-Israel tilt. And when Abdullah met with the President in Crawford, Texas, on Thursday, there were even signs that the old Bush charm had lost its purchase. Accounts of the 5-hr. meeting vary dramatically. According to two sources, Abdullah surprised Bush with three handouts - a photo album and two videocassettes - each...