Word: crownings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rifaat's savagery at home has been complemented by his smoothness abroad. He has cultivated Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose government has given Syria an estimated $6 billion over the past five years. He has worked to conciliate, and sometimes protect, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat. Last summer President Reagan publicly thanked him when, through contacts in the Iranian regime of Ayatullah Khomeini, Rifaat secured the release of David Dodge, acting president of the American University in Beirut, who had been kidnaped the previous year and abducted to Iran...
...pilot of the first theatrical Concorde," Hall fought with arts barons, trade unions and pretenders to his crown to see the National to its concrete home on the Thames. The psychic struggle took its toll: Hall describes himself as being "raw as burnt skin...
...lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards all three contestants a crown, proving the royal dictum: "What you can do is more important than what you look like," wisdom that applies all the way up the food chain...
...promises to be a major statement, both musically and politically, when it is finished some time next year. And last week in Paris, Seiji Ozawa presided over the world premiere of Olivier Messiaen's first opera, Saint François d'Assise, which is clearly intended to crown the 75-year-old Messiaen's career...
...NOTEBOOK: Three different lines scored for Harvard last night. The Crimson's chance to extend its record to 4-0 will come Saturday night at Brown, before a Sunday night home game versus RPI. . .B.U., one of the preseason favorites for the ECAC crown, now stands at 1-2 in conference play. At Boston University Harvard...