Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts about the Shah's alleged corruption are also difficult to pin down, especially because in Iran, as in other Middle Eastern monarchies, there traditionally has been little distinction drawn between the treasures of the ruler and those of the nation. A lawsuit filed in New York last week on behalf of the revolutionary government accuses the Shah of diverting $20 billion in national assets to his own use, and charges Empress Farah with taking $5 billion. But it offers no evidence and indeed admits that the sums are pretty much a guess. The Shah's own figure...
...Feast of St. Andrew, a patron saint of Eastern Orthodoxy, and a visitor had come to a dingy cathedral in a slum quarter of Istanbul, the last refuge of Orthodoxy's symbolic center, the once mighty Patriarchate of the Byzantine Empire. There last week, sitting opposite the crowned and richly vested Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I, Pope John Paul II became the first Pontiff in nine centuries to join in an Orthodox Eucharistic service. Though the Pope did not partake of Communion, he quietly hummed along with the chants and made the sign of the cross Eastern style, right...
...thumb is if a school has a good cross-country team, it's bound to have a good track team," coach Pappy Hunt said yesterday. During this year's cross-country season, the New Hampshire harriers beat the Crimson in a dual meet and placed higher in the Eastern Championships...
Both Johnson and St. Louis were instrumental in leading this year's squad to a first place tie in the Eastern Championship and an undisputed Ivy League title...
Only six members of this year's squad will graduate, and the booters are sure to continue their reign of Eastern soccer...