Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Offering the world a rare glimpse into the mores of the oil-rich desert kingdom, the Saudis confirmed that the executions had taken place, apparently last July. In their protest to the Foreign Office, the Saudis insisted the pair had not been married at all. Indeed, they stressed that marriage of a member of the royal family to a commoner is no crime in Saudi Arabia. The princess and her lover had been executed after a "sentence by an Islamic court for adultery?and for an adulterous act the law is death." According to the Saudi protest the British press...
...Tehran. Though he was opposed to joining the talks now, the King spoke optimistically about bringing even the Syrians into the talks once the Israelis had agreed to the principle of withdrawal from the occupied territories. Ideally, the King would like to see the West Bank rejoined to his kingdom in the form of a federation of Palestinian and Jordanian states under his Hashemite crown. But since he does not want to arouse the ire of radical Arabs by seeming to covet the West Bank against the will of the Palestinians, Hussein proposes a plebiscite for the West Bank...
...Palestinian entity begins life under United Nations auspices; economically, it would need ties with both Israel and Jordan, and politically, it should be federated in some manner with the Hashemite kingdom. Eventually, the citizens of the new entity should have the right to determine their political status, such as independence with full sovereignty, continued federation with Jordan (53% of whose population is Palestinian) or with Israel. Whatever the choice, Israel -and Jordan-must have assurances that the new entity will not become a threat to the stability of its neighbors...
...Look, 20% off a $4,000 box [a container] of electronic gear is obviously a better deal for them than cutting a fifth off a $1,500 box of car parts or wastepaper." Western shipping companies consider these tactics predatory, and West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom delivered official messages of protest to Moscow in the past four months. The British also sent a delegation to haggle rather unsuccessfully on a Russian yacht cruising in the Black...
...crisp white linen of logic, starts from mankind's inherent sense of right and wrong. Think about this, Lewis says: men feel wet when they fall into water; fish do not. If men feel "wet"-alien-in a world where evil abounds, he reasons, an unseen kingdom of Tightness must exist, and that means God. From there Lewis proceeds to explain evil via the Fall of Man and to offer Christ as the solution. In one passage Lewis rejects the "foolish" idea that Jesus was just a "great moral teacher." No, he says, this was One who claimed...