Word: zu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dining rooms of the Min Zu (Nationalities) and Peking hotels are jammed these nights with foreign businessmen dawdling over dinner because there is little else to do in the Chinese capital after dark. But an American hoping to compare notes with a Western colleague on the art of negotiating in the Middle Kingdom will be disappointed. Fearful of tipping off competitors, each company group huddles by itself and speaks in hushed tones. Says a U.S. businessman: "You sit there surrounded by Westerners all whispering about their deals, but you never find out what they...
Giorgio Laurent!, 33, worked for his Italian family's thriving manufacturing concern in Milan before deciding that his future lay in the U.S. With his German-born wife Iris, Countess zu Dohna-Lauck, 28, he moved to New York in 1974 and started a real estate investment concern that grossed nearly $10 million last year and may double that sum this year. Most of his business is with fellow Europeans. Laurenti's scholarly partner, Roberto Riva, 38, was born in Peru of Italian ancestry, earned his degrees in Italy, owned a prosperous oil trading company in Houston...
Dunster House Music Society presents Kletzsh's "Gesualdo," a short musical play for baritone and violin (performed by the composer) and Bach's "Art of the Fugue," with Margaret Dusenberry (violin), Konrad von und zu Tilleysburg (viola), Aideen Zeitlin (violin), and Peter Belmont (cello). Dunster House Library. 3 p.m. Free...
...article of faith to block any census that might change the original 1932 figures. Such friction might well have been enough to spark violence, but the present explosion has defied control because of still other complicating factors. Christians and Moslems alike are subdivided into sects, each headed by bosses (zu'ama) who have used patronage to build iron loyalty, as well as personal militias...
Though the country was coming apart, Lebanon's political leaders seemed utterly incapable of finding a solution. In fact they were part of the problem. Many are zu'ama who solemnly discuss cease-fires even as their troops are shooting away. President Suleiman Franjieh, whose base is a virtually feudal Christian hill village outside Tripoli, so thoroughly detests Premier Rashid Karami, a Sunni Moslem, that they can barely work together. Though Karami began seeking a solution in Parliament last week, so many of its 99 deputies refused to venture out in the line of fire that...