Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Daoud, who has been accused of participating in two of Black September's most famous operations: the Olympic attack and, in 1973, the murder of two U.S. diplomats in Khartoum. Abu Daoud was sitting at a table in the second-floor cafe of Warsaw's Victoria Inter-Continental Hotel last week when a young man suddenly appeared and hit him with five pistol shots. Abu Daoud was seriously wounded; the assailant escaped...
...rightists were encouraged by the "clarification" of U.S. policy toward El Salvador made by Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, on July 16. Enders declared U.S. support for free elections and asserted that the Salvadoran conflict called for a solution that "must be democratic . . . Only a genuinely pluralistic approach can enable a profoundly divided society to live with itself without violent convulsions...
Today, Quraishi moves among international bankers with ease. Almost every day financial pilgrims to SAMA check into Riyadh's sumptuous Inter-Continental Hotel near the bank's headquarters and await an audience with Quraishi. Even David Rockefeller, recently retired chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, was once spotted in the Inter-Continental lobby whiling away the time before his appointment...
...trade concessions and private investment incentives to fight the region's poverty, which it believes only helps breed Communist subversion. The Reaganauts also make no secret of their intention to send arms into the area. As Thomas O. Enders, the Assistant Secretary of State-designate for Inter-American Affairs, said last week, "We will help threatened countries to defend themselves. Once insurgents take arms with outside support, there is no alternative to an armed response...
...this changed when A. Lawrence Lowell assumed Harvard's presidency and instituted the system of concentrations and distribution requirements: suddenly 17-year-old men fell from grace when it came to choosing their own courses, supplanted by a labyrinth of departments, sub-departments, inter-departments, advisors and tutors. This system stayed in effect until the second World War, when Harvard made another one of its great educational leaps forward...