Word: pans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months later, at a postwar conference in Khartoum, Nasser achieved a sort of pan-Arab detente, primarily with Saudi Arabia and Libya. The new relationship between Egypt and Saudi Arabia was particularly important because it helped eradicate the ideological conflicts of what had been a kind of inter-Arab cold war. Egypt, after all, was officially a socialist state; Saudi Arabia was a traditionalist monarchy. "Nasser's revolution," says the same Lebanese scholar, "was replaced by the beginning of a moderate, middle-of-the-road nationalist Arab...
...feel that you have some good stuff in you," said Tin Pan Alley Publisher Max Dreyfus as he offered the 19-year-old composer a $35-a-week retainer. "It may take months, it may take a year, it may take five years, but I'm convinced that the stuff is there. Just stop in every morning, so to speak, and say hello...
...suspicious pilot had personally searched the two men before the takeoff from Amsterdam, but once the Pan American 747 was aloft they pulled pistols from crotch holsters and announced that they were hijacking the plane on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They ordered the plane to Cairo and eventually blew it up. That was in September 1970. While worrying about the series of Arab hijackings, Pan American also had a more mundane problem: Who was going to pay for its $24,288,759 plane? Was the 747 covered by the regular "all-risk" insurance issued...
...boycott was operated on an informal level before last Friday's announcement and is supported by other groups including the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement and the Pan African Liberation Committee...
...PAN...