Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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, why shouldn't he help poor Muslims to reach the Holy City...
...notable as Chernenko's rise was the political eclipse of Kiril Mazurov, 64, a Politburo member and First Deputy Premier since 1965. He was ousted from both jobs last week "for reasons of health and at his own request." Mazurov's backer was Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 74, who is not in the best of health, and whose influence has long been on the decline...
Analisa Torres '81, the only minority student in the group, questioned Radcliffe's commitment to minorities. She added there has been no response to her request for courses on minority cultures or on women minority members...
...student-faculty committee on consumer responsibility, formed by Dean Rosovsky at the request of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), will meet for the first time this Thursday to discuss Harvard's position on consumer boycotts...
Brown, who is a director of Allied Stores, the parent company of Jordan Marsh, refused "to render a judgment" on the request, saying that he did not think he had enough information to take a stand one way or the other on the Stevens boycott...