Word: ri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once their pipelines are completed, Egypt and Israel will find themselves ri vals for the same trade. Cairo is obviously counting on its Arab neighbors, which currently produce 75% of the Middle East's oil annually, to keep its line bubbling. The region's only major non-Arab producer is Iran, on which Israel relies for much of its domestic oil needs. But predominantly Moslem Iran is sure to come under heavy Arab pressure to steer its oil-cargo trade in Cairo's direction. So, even though its pipeline is expected to be finished first, Israel...
...month pay bonus that goes to troops who spend at least six days during the month along the DMZ. Behind the lines, U.S. troops live in Quonset-type barracks and enjoy plenty of movies and recreational facilities, including gymnasiums with basketball courts. In the nearby town of Sangpa-ri, they can buy a drink and find friendly feminine companionship. Another morale booster is the growing action itself. "When you get soldiers involved in an operation," says Lieut. Colonel Frank Romano, "their morale soars. They don't like boredom...
...next in line to head the government was Sheik Ali Musaid al-Babak-ri, a desert tribesman who holds the unlikely position of Minister of Civil Aviation. Sheik al-Babakri immediately asked the federation's 8,000-man army to take charge of the government "in response to the desire of the people...
Best Reading EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette; edited by Robert Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist (Chéri, Gigi, Mitsou, Claudine) the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
...years after World War I, Colette harvested the peculiar fruit of her bohemian years. She wrote Mitsou, Chéri and La Fin de Chéri, and in these books finally found her own voice as a writer, a voice in which masculine force was suffused with feminine tenderness, and boulevardiering decadence with a wonderful country freshness. In her 50s she extended her mastery. Her ideas, her images became ever more exact and effective. "The dog lay down with a great rumble and thump that sounded like a bag of potatoes being emptied"-"At the windows hung some nasty...