Word: aziz
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DIED. KING FAHD BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD, 84, monarch who kept Saudi Arabia stable during two decades of regional and domestic crises; after several strokes and diabetes left him largely incapacitated for the past decade; in Riyadh. Fahd's rule, which now passes to his half-brother Crown Prince Abdullah, was marked by an effort to balance his country's traditionalist religious faith with the imperative to build a modern state. A fan of the U.S., he transformed the once primitive desert kingdom into a gleaming bastion of skyscrapers and expressways and oversaw a massive expansion of Islam...
...buying an apartment or a modest house in his lifetime. Millions will have to forgo that dream. The gap between rich and poor is reaching dangerous proportions. It is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The government has simply not awakened to the plight of its people. Mehmood Aziz Karachi...
...four Iraqi officials complained about lacking resources that many Western universities take for granted. Mosa Jawad Aziz Almosawe, the President of the University of Baghdad, repeatedly mentioned a pressing need for more seats and blackboards in classrooms...
...Eritrean rebels [WORLD, Dec. 23]. In that strategic area of Africa, it has been more a superpower struggle than anything else. This kind of balanced reporting helps dispel the naive notion that nature is the only cause of the tragic suffering of the people in the region. Aziz L. Issarah Ossining, N. Y. Academic Freedom...
...unique structure of his terrorist group. He has continued to build upon a modus operandi that he began to develop years ago in the Sudan, where he attracted young, impassioned but inexperienced Palestinians to be the foot soldiers in his terrorist war. These days, youngsters such as Abdel Aziz Merzoughi and Ben Ahmed Chaoval, who survived the Vienna attack, are generally guided from behind the scenes by trained professional planners who handle strategy and logistics. No matter how many of the young gunmen are killed, the nucleus of Abu Nidal's organization survives to strike again and again from...