Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government pursued its prosecution with immense care and zeal, for more was at stake than the fates of a pair of inept spies. The trial, which ended in the colonial courthouse in Alexandria, Va., last Friday, set the stage for the testing of a crucial constitutional question: whether a U.S. President can order wiretaps without a judicial warrant in cases involving national security...
...Moving in, the FBI borrowed a Vietnamese woman agent from the CIA to act as a courier between Truong and Vietnamese officials in Paris. It also planted a hidden TV camera in Humphrey's office. In June, the woman met Truong at a shopping center in Alexandria, where he handed her a grocery bag full of documents, some marked SECRET and CONFIDENTIAL...
...contrast, the Wafd Party, which was reborn only three months ago, has been restrained in criticizing Sadat. But during a hotly contested by-election campaign in Alexandria this month, Wafd Leader Fuad Serageddin spoke for three hours as thousands cheered, giving the impression that he would soon mount a serious challenge to the regime. It was the-Wafd that led Egypt's struggle for independence from the British after World War I and often clashed with Farouk in attempting to limit the powers of the monarchy. After Nasser came to power in 1952, the Wafd was banned, along with...
Morris H. Crawford Alexandria...
Naturally, secular art was more relaxed. The homosexual content of Greek art is lovingly preserved in a tiny blue glass roundel made in Alexandria in the late 3rd century A.D. Called a portrait of "Gennadios most accomplished in the musical art," and rendered with innumerable scratches of a needle on a sheet of gold leaf, it presents a young man who, from his curly hair, might be a cousin of Leonardo's boyfriend Salai. It is not, of course, the only masterpiece of portraiture in the show. The tradition of the Roman portrait bust was kept and amplified among patrician...