Word: mah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swaziland last week, the burly young men in blazers, sports shirts and flannels looked every inch a South African rugby club off on a holiday to the Seychelles, the small (pop. 65,000), sun-drenched chain of islands off the East African coast. But soon after they arrived at Mahé's airport, their vacation plans went abruptly awry. When a surprised immigration official discovered a gun in one of the visitors' bags, the chap's companions whipped out automatic weapons. Obviously, this was no ordinary package tour. This was a coup, and the sportsmen were mercenaries...
This time the mercenaries planned to infiltrate Mahé after they landed and stage the coup later in the week, possibly as the first phase of a bigger operation involving local sympathizers and a back-up force of other mercenaries. But the premature Shootout left the scheme in shambles and the first wave of attackers stranded at the airport-until they captured the control tower and gave the Air India plane permission to touch down. The landing was nearly a disaster; the pilot just missed a Seychelles army truck parked on the runway and was forced to hop over another...
...tantamount to killing the university," snapped the president of France's Avignon University, Geologist Joël Mahé. What has aroused Mahé and most of his fellow French university presidents is a decision by France's tough-minded minister of universities, Alice Saunier-Seïté, to cut back proliferating graduate degree programs at the nation's 76 universities, which in France are both accredited and financed by the state...
...Already this year we've lost 200 registrations," complains Avignon's Mahé, whose 1,500-student school was denied national accreditation for graduate programs in medieval literature, modern literature and English. The minister also said "non" to six new degree offerings Avignon proposed in such fields as theater and medieval history. Students enrolled in rejected programs were obliged to transfer to other schools, often in distant towns or cities. Many of those unable to change cities have abandoned hope of advanced degrees. Angry student groups claim that 80,000 students will eventually be affected...
...tell Dean, who owns a small musical instrument factory in south Taiwan, that Michael has told me himself he believes in feng shui, that feels it. "I never feel anything. It's silly," Dean replies. Dean and Michael often gamble together, playing Mah Jong, which is technically illegal but extremely popular, the Chinese poker. Michael usually wins, Dean usually loses...