Word: sherif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance headed for Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. They were waiting on the tarmac when the Egyptair Boeing 707 touched down, bringing Sadat from Paris, where he had dropped off his wife Jihan and his two-year-old grandson Sherif Marei, who was to receive medical treatment. At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter for the "brave and gallant act" of calling the summit. In a swipe at Begin, he warned: "No one has the right to block the road to peace. This is no time for maneuvers and worn-out ideas...
...Raisuli, Sherif of the Berbers ("The blood of the prophets flows in me") kidnaps a beautiful American woman, Eden Pedecaris ("He is a brigand and a lout") and sweeps her off to his castle in the desert. President Theodore Roosevelt is outraged ("Arabian thief! I want respect!"), and the U.S. Government dispatches an ultimatum to the powers in Morocco: "Mrs. Pedecaris alive, or Raisuli dead." There follow fights, betrayals, skirmishes, duels, U.S. Marine action and a couple of full-fledged battles. Nothing much like it ever happened in history, but it makes for a lovely adventure...
...desert ways, and strove mightily to keep alien influences from corrupting his kingdom. He had seen it founded, after all, out of a backward region of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. In 1932 his crusty father, Ibn Saud, after a series of skirmishes that ended in his defeat of Sherif Hussein of Mecca (great-grandfather of Jordan's present King Hussein), established the kingdom. Ibn Saud had 36 sons but he took an early liking to Faisal, partly because the youth displayed a notable fighting spirit and an ability to carry out his father's orders. "I wish I had three...
...rate of movement into the trenches is almost imperceptible-no more than an inch or so a year. But Geophysicist Robert C. Bostrom and Civil Engineer Mehmet A. Sherif think that some of the more conveniently located trenches could be used as efficient geophysical garbage dumps. The trick, they explain in Nature, would be to dump packaged waste into the sea off the mouths of fast-flowing rivers, which annually wash vast amounts of mud into continental trench areas. Though the garbage would not be drawn far into the earth for many years, it would soon be buried so deep...
Dense Packages. Bostrom and Sherif admit that their scheme raises a number of serious technological questions. It would have to be determined, for example, whether a river deposits mud quickly enough to accommodate the projected garbage load. The plan would also be expensive, because the garbage would have to be compressed into dense, sinkable packages and transported by barge to the disposal site. Nevertheless, the two scientists, who are co-directors of the University of Washington's earthquake engineering group, are convinced that their proposal deserves serious scientific consideration. "In an age in which waste material is mass-produced...