Word: aziz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt's special-force commandos and paratroops. They demanded more freedom from overbearing Russian advisers; the implication was that they would not guarantee Sadat's continued presidency unless they received it. Whatever the bill of complaints, Sadat decided that he had to act. He dispatched Premier Aziz Sidky to Moscow for what some Cairo officials called "a final friendly ultimatum." By one account, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, returning from a vacation to meet Sidky, once more refused offensive weapons. Brezhnev reportedly dared the Egyptians to go ahead and toss out his advisers...
With minimum fuss she quit her job as a psychologist, bought a sloop called Aziz and, last year, made the trip from Wales to Newport, R.I., in 45 days. She was only the third woman to try, the second to succeed...
...hundred volumes and tablets setting forth his spiritual and social teachings. These included tablets sent to the principle political and ecclesiastical rulers of the time: Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Czar Alexander II, Kaiser Francis Joseph of Austria, President Grant, Pope Pius IX, Sultan 'Abdu'l-Aziz of Turkey, and Nasir'd-Din Shah of Iran. In these letters, he proclaimed the coming of a new Manifestation of God and exhorted them to lay down their arms and take hold of that which would be conducive to the unity of mankind. Some were warned of impending convulsions...
...side of any argument, his characters are simply not to be relied upon. For one thing, he often kills them off highhandedly. For another, they change sides right in the middle of the symbolic drama, or behave with maddening inconsistency in other ways. Mercurial and emancipated, Dr. Aziz in A Pas sage to India at first seems to come on as a stereotyped native victim of senseless prejudice. He is a victim. But he also proves to be arrogant: an Indian Moslem, he is as indifferent to the concerns of Hindus as they...
...terrorists and believes the threat has been contained. Though many of Israel's Arabs applaud the fedayeen spirit, they fear that terrorist tactics will bring back the old controls. "Our situation is that of a lamb between two wolves-the Israeli military and the Arab guerrillas," says Abdul Aziz Zuabi, an Arab member of Israel's Knesset (parliament...