Word: ruler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most powerful of Arab nations. Yet his assassins were attacking Sadat the peace-maker, not Sadat the war-monger. In this and many other ironies of his life, Sadat was a paradox, a man to befriend you one day only to abandon you the next. Indeed, the late Egyptian ruler once flirted with Hitler's Germany, then denounced it; supported Nasser, then disowned him; courted the Soviet Union, then rejected it; and waged war on Israel only to then embrace it in conciliation. Unstable as this course may seem, it does have an inherent logic, for Sadat...
...deal turns out to be as fishy as the dealer. Instead of penciling a manuscript-there is no manuscript-Halliday finds himself enmeshed in devious negotiations initiated by a Persian Gulf emir identified only as the Ruler. The potentate is eager to lease territory he controls to NATO as a major allied military base. Zander-Luccio, the Pike, serves as middleman in the deal, hoping that a grateful U.S. Government will thereafter provide him with political asylum and a new identity. After a long career of nastiness in the Middle East, he has learned that he is the target...
...author, who has also been one of the most felicitous movie scenarists of his generation (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), may have developed his unerring tempo from that medium. His labyrinthine plots, however, are uniquely Amblerian. Hero Halliday, who is forced into acting as intermediary between the Ruler, the Pike and NATO intelligence, finally meets the sheik in a house above an abandoned silver mine in Austria. Though the mine is supposed to be a potential treatment center for respiratory diseases, Halliday discovers that the potentate has far more sinister intentions. What follows thereafter is a frenetic...
...eventual ruler will confront difficult problems. Fully one-third of the country's population of 1.9 million is composed of primary schoolchildren, who may face a shrinking job market in the years ahead. With farming depressed, people are crowding into cities, exacerbating social tensions...
...Rome from 54 to 68; Attila the Hun, who led his barbaric tribe from 433 to 453; Ivan the Terrible, nogoodnik Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584; Catherine de Medicis, Machiavelli-mentored Queen of France from 1547 to 1589 and noted butcher of Protestants; Abdul-Hamid II, murderous ruler of the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1909; Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader from 1929 to 1953; Adolf Hitler, an automatic club member as leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945; Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976; and the only living honoree, Uganda's brutish...