Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fascination with that realm enlivens The World of Allah (Houghton Mifflin; 280 pages; $35). From the film shot in his travels, Duncan has assembled a Pavlova of the highly photogenic landscapes and people of Islam. It is a warm and sympathetic vision of the family of man, Muslim branch. In the past, Duncan's versatile lens has memorably captured war, American presidential politics and Pablo Picasso. The gaze he directs at Islam is, as always, lucid and superbly dramatic...
Harvard's branch of Phi Beta Kappa last week elected 24 senior men to membership in the prestigious national honor society...
Donald Zeh. the manager of the sperm bank which is a branch of Xytex Corp., attributes the run on his bank to easy money. Zeh said the bank pays donors $20 each, and students could make a donation every two days...
...trying so hard to keep the nervous West Europeans from reneging on their commitment to accept the Pershing IIs and cruise missiles. The U.S. does not need the MX in Dense Pack. But it does not need to have the world see a spectacular rebuff of the Executive Branch by the Congress either...
...assumed that a non-Russian would have difficulty rising to the top. His double promotion last week changed that by putting him in line to become the Soviet Union's first Premier from a Muslim republic. Aliyev joined the Soviet security force at 18, and headed the Baku branch of the KGB from 1967 to 1969. As Azerbaijan party leader, he has at tracted attention by cracking down on corruption and making his tiny Caucasian mountain fief into an agricultural success story. Aliyev has also kept Azerbaijan free of infection from Islamic fundamentalism in neighboring Iran...