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...over arms control may be going nowhere, but the Soviet-American negotiations at Tersk were a success. On a Soviet horse farm nestled in the foothills of the northern Caucasus, 70 Western horse breeders, half of them Americans, gathered with hard dollars in hand for the annual Tersk stud Arabian horse auction. The goods for sale were definitely low technology, and détente flourished. The buyers sat in a verdant paddock and listened as an auctioneer wheedled, cajoled and otherwise tried to nudge bids upward with capitalist determination. "What's the matter, you leave your wallets at home...
Falling in love is, in which case you should head right away to the exotic Cafe Algiers on Brattle St. for mint tea, falafel and Arabian music. Whether you sit outside or in, pretend it's wartime Casablanca. For a more Occidental experience, veer to the understated Cafe Pampiona where you'll want to be seen...
...University's handling of another major Saudi Arabian contribution generated confusion and criticism. In May of 1982, Harvard accepted a $1 million gift from a Saudi businessman to establish a professorship in contemporary Arab Studies that some faculty members of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies said was effectively conditional on the appointment of Walid Khalidi, previously a visiting professor and reportedly an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to an unusual open-ended research post. As one official close to the center, who declined to be identified, described it last May, Harvard and the unnamed donor...
Although the University Development Office does not classify donations by national origin, William Boardman, director of the Major Gifts division, says he knows of no Major Saudi Arabian gifts besides the two in 1982. David Johnson, also of the Office of Development, similarly down-plays the importance of foreign contributions, noting that alumni, along with domestic corporations and foundations, remain the essential sources of large gifts...
...experience into 300 pages; he shares dinner with a Bedouin tribe, attends a royal wedding, and spends a great deal of time in conversations with a wide range of Saudi patients and acquaintances, from poor farmers to members of the plush Arab-American Oil Company that first discovered Arabian...