Word: medina
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...great modernizer who was also a faithful servant of Islam; a pro-American leader who used the Kingdom's vast oil wealth to build schools, hospitals, roads and airports as well as to commission a vast reconstruction of Islam's holiest mosques in the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina. But many Saudis will also recall the Fahd era for the profligate lifestyle of many senior members of the royal family-and for the regime that ultimately needed the U.S. to save it from its neighbors, such as Iraq...
...honeymoon was to be brief, since the bride's leave from CBS is short and the bridegroom has a film crew waiting on location. Naturally, the site was kept secret. --By Sara C. Medina. Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Hyannis
...deliberate, wooden tones, Hasenfus told a press conference in Managua that he and 24 to 26 companions had worked in San Salvador for an organization called Corporate Air Services. The group, he said, had been supervised by "two naturalized Cuban Americans" named Max Gomez and Ramon Medina who "worked for the CIA." The pair, claimed Hasenfus, did most of the flight coordination, "oversaw all our housing projects, and also refueling and some fright plans...
...book, but when friends suggested it, he liked the idea. "There's no other way to keep photos," he says. "I wasn't going to hang them on my wall." Besides, he's not giving it away. The book goes for $24.95. --By Sara C. Medina...
...draws, making the final score 12½-11½. Last week after the 23rd game, when Karpov's defeat had become inevitable, the two men shook hands and chatted briefly. It was the first public show of warmth between them in their two long years of battle. --By Sara C. Medina. Reported by Nancy Traver/Moscow