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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...
...this weekend in Athens, Ga., is a dream come true for the netmen--the chance to compete in the inter-collegiate national championship...
...supporting the civilian-military junta that controls El Salvador to prevent a "total disintegration of that society." Jim Cheek, deputy secretary of state for inter-American affairs, said at the forum, adding that the regime at least provides order...