Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gate was originally built by the Romans as part of the defensive wall around Jerusalem and served as one of several entrances to the city. The gate visible today was built on top of the Roman gate in the mid-16th century by the Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, but recent diggings have revealed parts of the old gate, Rosovsky says...
...died. A column of Iraqi tanks, their spotlights flickering through billows of thick dust, churned past the bodies toward the east; the roar of their engines blended into a continuous hum. As outgoing rounds of 130-mm artillery shook the windows of his headquarters nearby, Iraqi Major General Sultan Hashem Ahmed told a group of reporters: "There are no Iranian soldiers on Iraqi territory--not even...
...reception at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for 150 leaders of delegations to the General Assembly session. Among other heads of state who planned to attend were Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte, Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín and the Sultan of Brunei. Gromyko planned to lead the Soviet delegation. Though it would be undiplomatic of Reagan and Gromyko to talk business at a social event, they will doubtless begin sizing each other up during small talk...
...triggered by an unusual Saudi deal in which the country plans to exchange some 34 million bbl. of oil for ten new Boeing 747 jetliners. Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani protested the arrangement because it would add to the glut on the world oil market. But Prince Sultan, chief of the military and the national airline, overruled him, apparently because the royal family wanted to avoid dipping into the country's foreign-exchange reserves to pay for the planes. By exceeding its OPEC production quota, Saudi Arabia provided an easy excuse for most other members...
Even so, the Saudis made it clear that they had fired their missiles more in sorrow than in anger. Said Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.: "Our sovereignty was violated and we reacted, as we said we would all along, in a defensive manner. We think it is a pity we had to be dragged into this conflict...