Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three days after the Libyan raid last week, French fighter-bombers struck the Libyan air base at Ouadi-Doum, knocking out an elaborate radar complex. The Libyans were caught by surprise because the French, flying almost at dune level, had escaped radar detection. The following day Libya responded with an aerial attack on the small town of Kouba Olanga, just south of the 16th parallel...
Khashoggi's most public debacle has been in Utah, where he was attracted by what he believed were prime development opportunities. The centerpiece of his $1 billion Salt Lake City project is the Triad Center, a $400 million, 25-acre complex of office buildings, a hotel and retail shops. Work stopped after only about a third of the glitzy complex was completed. Khashoggi refuses to cave in to Triad's creditors, among them architects, contractors and banks. "They loaned the money against the collateral, the Triad Center," he says. "Now they hear rumors about my cash-flow problems and call...
...good" is not just his lithe body or their rendering but the feeling of being finally at peace within one's own mind, that house of many mansions. For an artist and perhaps for everyone, Gurney implies, building a relationship with oneself is at least as crucial -- and as complex -- as coming to terms with the world...
...gauzy legend. Now a provocative new biography based on interviews with his closest associates and examination of FBI files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act sheds a revealing new light on King's human side and on the vicious secret pressures he faced from the FBI. The complex and convincing portrait drawn by David Garrow, associate professor of political science at New York's City College, describes how the bureau under J. Edgar Hoover tried to blackmail and intimidate King with tapes of his sexual encounters and how it attempted to discredit him by spreading reports about his love...
...Garrow's revelations. Even if true, says Wyatt Walker, former staff chief to King, "how does that change the value of his contribution toward sensitizing the nation on the moral issue of race?" But others who value that contribution just as highly say an unvarnished understanding of the complex man and his struggles with the FBI -- and with himself -- provides a deeper appreciation of the larger crusade he waged. The book does not diminish the heroic nature of his struggle, but instead makes it more real...