Word: khoury
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just okayed a $14 million expansion program. At Beirut (2,040 students at university level) he will face even bigger problems. The A.U.B. (which has produced such statesmen as Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, and former Prime Ministers Mohammed Fadil al-Jamali of Iraq, Faris al-Khouri of Syria and Sayed Ismail el-Azhari of Sudan) now runs at an annual deficit of more than $400,000, has the increasingly difficult task of attracting Arab students away from their own growing state-supported universities...
...American Friends of the Mid-East will sponsor a speech on the Arab's viewpoint on the Palestine problem by Mrs. Wadia Khouri Makdissi at 8 p.m. this evening in Holmes Hall. Born in England of Lebanese parents, Mrs. Makdissi is a leader in education and civic activities in Beirut, Lebanon...
Syria's Faris El Khouri and Iraq's Mohamed Fadhil Jamali moved into the picture with another Assembly resolution entitled "United Action for Peace." It recommended that the Security Council's permanent members (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China) "meet and discuss ... all problems which are likely to threaten international peace . . ." The big powers would report back to the Assembly the outcome of their umpteenth get-together...