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...cost the French army hundreds of hands to put the Tuaregs in a kissing mood. The fierce, veiled warriors of the high Sahara gave up their murderous ways only in 1917, when they settled uneasily into a pastoral life as goat and camel herdsmen in the sere, sand-scoured mountains north of Timbuctoo. Last week in the Republic of Mali, some 5,000 Tuaregs decided the kissing had to stop. Holed up in the Adrar des Iforas, a parched, 40,000-sq.-mi. redoubt that straddles the Mali-Algerian border, they prepared to fight off half of Mali...
...house. Out back is a flagstone terrace. On top of the house perches a cupola with a view of the Potomac. The house went on the market a year ago for $325,000, recently came down to around $190,000. Jackie reportedly got it for a few thou sand dollars less. "Let's just say we didn't want to make it difficult for her," says the former owner, Estate Administrator James Gibson...
...keeping peace with the Arabs had its elements of unpleasantness, coming to terms with the desert itself was every bit as difficult. Over the course of his archaeological career, Glueck estimates, he has eaten his own weight in sand. Recurrently parched and hungry, he figures that he has lost a cumulative total of 1,000 Ibs. But the slim rabbi with the emphatic eyebrows always emerged from his Bedouin robes in perfect health...
ENRICO DONATI-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. Slabs of textured pigment on canvas are built up out of what Donati calls "mixed media," and that can mean everything from sand to terra-cotta dust to ground marble. Twenty of his newest paintings...
...Moulton, assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds, who is directing the work at Widener, said yesterday that water-blasting was chosen to remove the paint because it is less likely than sand-blasting to seriously erode the columns. The water-blasting process uses water under very high pressure with a controlled amount of sand mixed into it as it is applied, whereas the stronger sand-blasting uses merely compressed air and sand...