Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said one bewildered State Department diplomat last week, commenting on an unprecedented and frightening display of Palestinian terrorism-directed not against the Israelis but against brother Arabs. The blood feud involved a long-running quarrel between Palestinians loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and Iraqi-backed "rejectionists," who believed that the P.L.O. leader was soft on Israel...
...London, Palestinians tossed a hand grenade beneath the limousine of Iraqi Ambassador Taha Ahmed Daoud outside his embassy in Kensington. Daoud, luckily, was inside the embassy, bidding his staff farewell before leaving for reassignment in Saudi Arabia. London police arrested two Palestinian grenade tossers, a man and a woman...
...spirits with a solid Group II effort on his Pleasant Valley scorecard: 87 strokes. Junior Spence Fitzgibbons, ailing under the delusion that he is the incarnation of the infamous Dr. Wadi Haddad of Terror International, died once again as he soared to what is a nice temperature in the Iraqi desert--85. Sophomore Jim Dales chattered his way through a four-putt green and an 82. Senior Dave Paxton played a near impeccable front nine, then rose to the occasion at the long par-4 tenth hole and took, in the ever-inventive golf vernacular, a "snow man." "You know...
...newly launched vehicle for Heyerdahl's latest voyage is the Tigris, an 18-meter-long (59 ft.) craft constructed from 30 metric tons (33 tons) of reeds gathered from the swamps of southern Iraq; its design is based on drawings found on ancient Sumerian clay tablets. Iraqi workmen first tied the reeds together into two long, tapering rolls. Then the rolls were joined to form the craft's hull. Though on earlier voyages Heyerdahl and his crew drifted across oceans at the whim of winds and currents, the Tigris will be more versatile. It has been fitted with...
...story of the Tigris to the British Broadcasting Corp., which has assigned a cameraman to film the voyage from beginning to end. He has engaged a nine-man crew that includes an American, a Russian, an Italian, a Mexican, a Japanese, a German, two Scandinavians and an Iraqi (three Indian dhow skippers, hired to help navigate through some difficult waters on the route, withdrew from the expedition when they got a look at the craft...