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Today a few monuments still loom over Samarkand, overshadowing modern Soviet interlopers. From the immense ruin of Bibi-Khanym Mosque to Shah-I-Zinda's intimate alley of tombs and Tamerlane's resting place at Guri Amir Mausoleum, the city offers an imposing collection of intricately patterned towers, precise arches and azure domes. The Registan?a three-sided plaza of colossal mosaic portals, minarets and medressas (Islamic schools)?was the center of medieval Samarkand and remains the most impressive site (entry $1). In the market near Bibi-Khanym, something of the Silk Road survives as women hawk bread...
Begin's unexpected rise to power not only changed the internal politics of Israel but suddenly raised serious questions about hopes for any new moves toward a peace settlement in the Middle East. Repudiating the Labor Party of Israel's founders?David Ben-Guri-on, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir?Israel's 2.2 million voters gave Begin's Likud 44 seats in the new 120-member Knesset, a gain of five. Labor ended up with 33 seats, a loss of 18 from the previous parliament. The new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Archaeologist and Onetime Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin...
Rising on Risks. Next week Edgar Kaiser will jet from his headquarters in Oakland, Calif., to Venezuela, where Kaiser engineers head a consortium of companies from five nations that is building the $137 million Guri Dam. Meanwhile, Kaiser Aluminum is busy putting up new plants in West Berlin, Turkey and Japan. Kaiser Steel has just closed the largest trade deal in Australia's history: with a local partner, it will sell $600 million worth of iron ore to Japan over the next 15 years. Kaiser Cement & Gypsum this month opened a mill in Florida, and later this year will...
...Married. Guri Lie, 26, blonde daughter of first U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie; and William Zeckendorf III, 26, son of Real-Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf and a vice president of his father's Manhattan real-estate firm, Webb & Knapp; in Winchester...
...Guri Lie, 27, daughter of the U.N.'s Trygve Lie, announced in Manhattan that she has registered as an immigrant under the Norwegian quota and will become a U.S. citizen...