Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Arab leaders made it obvious which side they were on. Saudi Arabia's King Khalid phoned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to express support for his battle against "the enemies of the Arab people," according to Iraqi reports. Jordan's King Hussein publicly applauded the attack. Kuwait's official news agency, which reflects the views of the ruling family, adopted a hawkish, pro-Iraq stand. To varying degrees, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman all jumped on the Iraqi bandwagon...
...American Express, meanwhile, is advertising in its Christmas catalogue an auto that puts the fictional solid-gold Cadillac to shame-a two-seat DeLorean sports car electroplated in 24-karat gold. Cost: $85,000. A new company founded by former General Motors Executive John DeLorean will build the car in Northern Ireland. Gushes the American Express ad: "The car of the future is so spectacular that it surpasses the imagination...
Although the DeLorean golden dream machine cannot be delivered until June 1981, seven people have put down the required $10,000 deposit. American Express offers to let customers place the remainder on their credit cards. Drivers who still do not like to think about m.p.g. but are not up to a gold DeLorean might consider the stainless-steel model. It will cost about...
Initial attempts to end the war failed. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim convened the Security Council in an informal session on Tuesday, but all its members could agree on was to express "deep concern" and appeal to the combatants "to desist from all armed activity." Said a U.S. official: "The Security Council is the logical place to sort this out, but neither regime has a history of paying much attention to the U.N." Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, on good terms with both Saddam and Khomeini, offered his services to help end the war and visited both Baghdad...
...changed. Now wolves are seen as benign and useful citizens of the ecosystem. They protect nature's delicate balance by keeping down those troublesome caribou herds and even practice birth control. Wolves do still howl, of course, but, as Michael Fox reassuringly points out, this is often to express "their unity and kinship through song...