Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history. Many Muslims feel a profound ambivalence toward the West, and especially toward the U.S. They are contemptuous of Western "materialism" and "decadence," yet they are also dependent upon Western technology and skill. Above all, they fear that Western influences will dilute and eventually destroy the Muslim way of life...
...that no blood be shed inside a mosque; by nightfall they knew that they were hostages. Blood had already been shed within the mosque; when several guards had tried to arrest Mohammed and his band, they had been killed. Outside the locked doors, Saudi authorities were baffled. The only way to open the doors was to blast them open with cannon. But to damage a holy place required a ruling by the 'Ulama, the kingdom's religious leaders...
...Louisiana has come a long way from the Depression poverty that Long fought-and exploited. If the state has the highest illiteracy rate in the nation, it ranks with Texas as a leading producer of gas and oil. A burgeoning middle class has produced conservative politics. Republicans are still vastly outnumbered by Democrats, 1.7 million to 81,000, but the G.O.P. is making rapid gains, and many of the state's Democrats are so conservative that they act, and vote, like Republicans. Three of the state's eight Congressmen are now Republicans, and a fourth Republican missed being...
Annoyed by the growing G.O.P. challenge, state Democrats thought they had found a way to eliminate it. In 1975 they changed the election law so that candidates of both parties would all enter a single primary. They figured that the two top vote getters would invariably be Democrats, thus eliminating the problem of having anyone face a Republican in the runoff. They figured wrong. In the October primary, Treen outdistanced his adversaries, and will face Democrat Louis Lambert, 38, in the runoff...
...arms could not be twisted, ears could certainly be reddened. Said a longtime city hall watcher: "She created the kind of atmosphere where everyone knows that vengeance can be exacted. She doesn't have to threaten. They know what the-message is: 'Do it my way or else...