Word: fadia
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Along the 2,200 miles of the winding Rio Grande and land border with the U.S. the story is also one of sordid contrasts, but the people who live there and the thousands moving in are optimistic. "This is the best of two worlds," says Fadia Barraza, a university freshman in Juarez. "Life gets steadily better." At the maquilas, the sprawling assembly plants that produce goods for export to the U.S., parking lots filled with employees' cars suggest she is right...
Married. Princess Fadia, 21, youngest daughter of Egypt's ex-king Farouk and his first wife Farida; and Pierre Orloff, 26, Swiss geologist, well-born son of an exiled White Russian; in a civil ceremony at which Farouk was noticeably absent (he wanted Fadia to marry a Moslem, not a Russian Orthodox); in London...
...Switzerland, fat, sad ex-King Farouk of Egypt, who still cherishes the notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...Fuad I sired Farouk, Fawzia, Faiza, Faika and Fathia. Farouk's three daughters (by wife No. i) are Ferial, Fawzia and Fadia...
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