Word: kinged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Triple Jump: 1--King (H) 22 ft. 11 in.; 2--Mahoney (H) 44 ft. 10 3/4 in.; 3--Miller...
Sola Mahoney had a good day, taking first in the long jump and finishing a close second behind teammate Charles King in the triple jump. Eagle Ignatius MacLellan snapped the Crimson's undefeated streak in the high jump, however, soaring to 6 ft., 10 in. in edging out Harvard's Michael Young...
...concerned about the stalemate. The relationship between Egypt and its chief bankroller Saudi Arabia, which lies at the heart of Washington's hopes for Middle East stability, has reached its lowest ebb since the mid-1960s, when Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal backed opposing sides in the Yemeni civil war. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who knows both countries well, offers some insights into the cooling friendship...
...ingratitude, the Saudis have taken to quoting a saying from the Koran: "If you shall be thankful, I shall increase my bounty." Hinting that his country will not abandon the Egyptians entirely, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal likes to recall a time when Nasser savagely attacked King Faisal for months on end. Nasser suspended his attacks just long enough to ask Faisal to give him $10 million so that several thousand Egyptian pilgrims could go to Mecca. The King was annoyed at the shamelessness of the request, but in the end he agreed. After all, he reasoned...
...Washington. The Israelis are worried about what they feel is a pro-Arab, or at least a pro-Egyptian, tilt on the part of the U.S. As a prime example, they cite an October visit to Amman by Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders, who gave Jordan's King Hussein the official U.S. answers to 14 questions that the King had raised about the Camp David accords. Saunders, at various times a CIA, National Security Council and State Department specialist in Middle East affairs, is a respected Arabist. Selective leaks of his purported answers to Hussein tended to fuel...