Word: barkat
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...Abul Barkat Boston No Meeting In your story "Talking to the P.L.O." [Aug. 27] I am mentioned as having had a meeting with Ambassador Robert Strauss. I have never seen, much less spoken to, Mr. Strauss. As a Palestinian American I deplore the continuing policy of denying full Palestinian self-determination, and as a scholar and intellectual I am a party to the struggle for self-determination, not an intermediary...
...grandfather left him a fortune of several hundred million dollars, but play no glad ragas for Nawab Mir Barkat AH Khan, 34, Nizam of Hyderabad. The legacy also included a household staff of 14,000 hungry souls, and an accounting system so lax, says the Nizam, that "every restaurant in the vicinity was being secretly supplied with food from my grandfather's kitchens." So now he has slashed his staff to a bareboned 2,000, which touched off a protest march by 500 of the dismissed employees. There was nothing else to do: the Indian government has sliced...