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...percent is a healthy amount, and if theywanted to take dramatic action, they couldannounce that Harvard was selling the stockbecause of dissatisfaction with the company," saida spokesperson for Merrill Lynch. "But I don'tknow if there would be any changes...
...white presidential palace next to the ancient ruins of Carthage. Though there were rumors that Bourguiba had been spirited out of the capital, officials insisted he remained cloistered in the palace. However, two Cabinet ministers were arrested, and some of the President's closest associates, including his powerful niece Saida Sassi and his son Habib Bourguiba Jr., were said to be under house arrest. No violence or resistance to the coup was reported...
...moves, told a Baathist meeting that his troops had taken "a firm stand to oppose any party that insists on continuing the war." His remarks were aimed at leftist Moslem Leader Kamal Jumblatt, who had accused Syria of invading Lebanon and sent demonstrators into the streets of Tyre and Saida with banners that read: SAVE THE SYRIAN ARMY FOR THE CONFRONTATION WITH ISRAEL...
...tattered, canvas tents that once billowed across the South Lebanese val ley near Saida (modern Sidon) have long since rotted away, and in their place the residents of Ein el Hilweh have built a Mediterranean Hooverville of plaster-sided shacks whose tin roofs clatter in the chill winter wind. The Arabs who occupy the camp are Palestinian refugees, who were assigned their 25 flat, barren acres by the United Nations after the Israeli army had driven them from their homes in north ern Palestine. The first of the homeless arrived there in 1947 just before Christmas. As their numbers swelled...
William Alfred Eddy has spent 19 of his 40 years abroad. Born at Saida (Sidon), Syria, he sailed to the U. S. to attend the College of Wooster (Ohio) and Princeton, sailed back to France with the A.E.F. to be wounded at Belleau Wood and receive the Distinguished Service Cross. With a Ph.D. from Princeton he went to Egypt in 1923, headed the English department of the American University at Cairo for five years before he was called to Dartmouth. While at Cairo he introduced basketball to Egyptian youngsters, wrote the first book of basketball rules in Arabic, started...