Word: ghutra
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...Amin Dada, all right, shapeless thobe robes, ghutra headgear and all. The onetime President-for-Life of Uganda, who fled from his country three years ago, has lived a relatively secluded and uncharacteristically quiet existence in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. From an interview with a Turkish journalist, Leyla Umar, it is evident that Amin is as feisty and fanciful as ever. He commented on President Reagan ("I don't like him any more") and told of how his fellow Ugandans pine for his return. The former dictator shed 20 Ibs. so he could beat his offspring in swimming races...
...blue blazer and beige slacks," A story on ghetto problems discusses a "black former newpaper publisher in a gray pinstripe suit." The "People" section of this weekly reveals that when Idi Amin walks down the strets of Saudi Arabia "he wears the shapeless white thobe gown and ghutra headcloth...
...cities are dominated by the roar of bulldozers and the rattle of jackhammers. The hard hat of the construction worker rivals the checkered ghutra as the national headdress. In the bustling commercial and financial port city of Jidda, on the Red Sea, bulldozers tear into the graceful old houses of the Ottoman era with their latticework balconies and harem windows. In the capital city of Riyadh, rows of mud houses topped with crenelated roofs are smashed to dust to make way for superhighways or high-rise buildings of chrome, glass and soaring reinforced concrete. Passenger jets land and depart from...
...would grunt a little more this week at the social season linked delicately to an extension of U.S. diplomatic activity on many fronts. Heading the calendar: a three day state visit, beginning Jan. 30, by one of the world's last absolute monarchs, Saudi Arabia's bespectacled ghutra-draped King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud. Scheduled before Suez to visit Washington for discussions on the U.S. air base at Dhahran, influential King Saud comes after Suez for conferences of a nature far more serious to the Middle East in general...
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