Word: mergers
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There is piquant historical irony in the burgeoning partnership between Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein and Jordan's King Hussein. The King's cousin, King Faisal II of Iraq, was slaughtered by the Iraqi military in 1958. Hafez Assad's Syria has negotiated a phony "merger" with Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, even though Gaddafi until recently was suspected of financing the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, an underground organization dedicated to the assassination of Assad's fellow Alawites, members of a minority Muslim sect that controls the Damascus regime, and in 1976 Gaddafi sent his guerrillas into Lebanon to fight alongside Palestinians...
...destroy what is left of the Shah's military machine and ingratiate himself with the conservative gulf states, who then might accept Iraqi hegemony. Syria's Assad feels threatened by Iraq so he allies himself with Iraq's enemy, Iran. Assad strings Gaddafi along on the mostly rhetorical "merger" because Libya has a huge supply of Soviet arms that Syria may need to supplement its own in case of war with Iraq?and also because Gaddafi, in exchange for Syrian cooperation in the merger charade, has pulled back help from Assad's other enemies...
...merger for Westinghouse
...Kennedy School's merger this summer with the City and Regional Planning Program (CRP)--formerly part of the Graduate School of Design--added about 250 students to the school and made the need for career services expansion "a high priority" for the school. Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean, said yesterday, adding the school's fourfold expansion within five years is "amazing and crazy...
Columbia now is affiliated with Barnard College, a women's school, and talks are underway to increase ties between the colleges. However, one administration source said, "The environment for a merger is not yet around. Admitting women is a way of acting immediately...