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...force from 1958 to 1966 and the following year helped lead the military's rapid, pre-emptive victory in the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hard-liners and through his rapport with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...
...Ambassador and his wife, who are the official hosts of the royal couple, Charles and Diana went their separate ways. He went to the American Institute of Architects and she, accompanied by Barbara Bush, visit ed the Washington Home, a residence for the elderly and infirm. Inside the striking cement-and-glass A.I. A. headquarters, Charles heard about one of his pet subjects, the revitalization of urban areas. After the round-table discussion, the Prince strolled over to the Octagon House, built in 1801, to peruse the two-page Treaty of Ghent ("Quite a long one, too," he said smilingly...
Gates said that the department is “working hard to hire several new professors” that will cement the department’s prominence in African American studies and propel it to becoming the nation’s top center for African studies as well...
...Friday he was back in Leimen, the small West German town (pop. 17,000) where he is the biggest thing to happen since they opened the cement factory. The good burghers turned out 8,000 strong for a motorcade. There was a cannon salute and a trumpet fanfare, and then a town-hall reception. Everything was golden: the commemorative ring and the specially processed album by the Deep Purple rock group that he received, the distinguished-visitors book he signed. Down the street, at the Helmut Weber bakery, which displays in its windows the scuffed shoes and muddy togs...
...fast enough. Last week, 30-year-old construction consultant Yason Waru and his cousin Darni were sifting through the pile of rubble that was once their house. Built just a year ago, it was reduced to a 3-m-high heap of bricks, zinc roofing and chunks of cement in less than five minutes. "When the quake hit we had no time to save anything but ourselves," says Waru. Certainly, they received no earthquake warning from local officials. Because the reality is, it's still impossible to predict with any accuracy when the earth's plates will shift, triggering...