Word: aryeh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faberge's rare masterpieces, or rather what looks like one, is now the subject of a bitter legal battle that has scandalized the art-sales world. The combatants are Eskandar Aryeh, an Iranian-born millionaire who has filed a $37 million suit, and Christie's, the renowned London-based auction house...
...story began in 1977. Aryeh, an avid collector of Russian artifacts who had emigrated from Iran to the U.S., owned some 100 of Faberge's plain enamel eggs, which were made for ordinary collectors and not monarchs. Hearing that an Imperial egg was being auctioned off by Christie's in Geneva, he asked his sister Shahnaz, who lived in Switzerland, to try to buy it. This particular egg was supposedly commissioned for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913 by Czarina Alexandra for her husband Nicholas II. It opens to reveal a tiny statue of Nicholas astride...
...Amnesty report has received overwhelming praise from other human rights groups. Says Nina Shea, program director for the International League for Human Rights in New York: "I find it to be eminently reliable, if not on the conservative side." Aryeh Neier, vice chairman of New York-based Americas Watch, agrees. "It's absolutely solid," he says. More surprising, the Reagan Administration, which often finds itself at odds with human rights groups, responded favorably. Although officials were disappointed that the report paid little attention to Cuba and Nicaragua, a State Department spokesman declared: "It documents this problem in impressive...
...Minister's office. At first Begin insisted he wanted to stay and take part in the vote, but colleagues assured him there was no need. As he waited for the ambulance to arrive, Begin joked with friends, but then appeared to be in pain. He told Cabinet Secretary Aryeh Naor, who had been hospitalized with a heart attack only a month earlier: "You just came out. Now I'm going...