Word: hisham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experts emphasize, as do Jimmy Carter and Administration spokesmen, that last week's pact was but a single step toward a comprehensive peace. Says Hisham Sharabi, a Georgetown University historian and president of the National Association of Arab Americans: "The treaty doesn't even touch the central problem of Palestinian self-determination. As a result, the Arab world is more bitter and frustrated than ever...
...catapulting their country forward into the most ambitious building program that money can buy, the Saudi rulers also set in motion a kind of social revolution whose long-range effects are not easy to foretell. "We are just about keeping pace with our five-year plan," says Planning Minister Hisham Nazer, "but we still have more money than we can spend." They are building two of the largest and most modern airports in the world for Riyadh and Jidda, to accommodate the armies of migrant workers and businessmen who are coming to seek their fortunes...
...Hisham Nazir, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, is Minister of Planning. That makes him boss of the world's largest and most ambitious development plan: a fiveyear, $142 billion scheme to build plants, roads and housing...
...when the war broke out Jaber, a Greek Catholic, eagerly took on the assignment of totting up its casualties day by day. He checked hospital reports and the various warring forces, whose figures, while self-serving, were at least a basis on which to work. An important source was Hisham Shaar, chief of Lebanon's national police, whose network relayed not only the locations of new battles but also their ferocity...
Fears of a run on the pound have subsided. Though investors are generally not buying sterling, they are not selling it either. As Sheik Hisham Nazer, Saudi Arabian Minister for Economic Planning, said recently of his country's large sterling balances: "The British are not worried about them...