Word: followings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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After the rally on Wednesday the group will place follow-up calls in a final effort to gain support before the election...
...brash and too untested for other Arab leaders to accept him. Saudi Arabia's Feisal, as keeper of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, has long dreamed of claiming Arab leadership on religious grounds. But Feisal's government is so medieval that few young Arabs would follow him. Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat rules no country and thus lacks a true power base, even though he does sit as an ex officio 15th member of the Arab League because of the size and strength of the fedai movement...
...death, he hinted through his U.N. ambassador that Egypt might move some missiles back in exchange for U.S. guarantees against an Israeli attack on Egyptian territory. With Nasser gone, there is no Egyptian who possesses enough power to risk the reaction that might follow an order to pull back. Only El Rais?"the Boss," as Arabs jocularly called Nasser?could do that...
...revealed to have been a heart attack. Last July, when he was in the Soviet Union seeking additional missiles to counter Israeli Phantom jets, Nasser checked into a clinic for a two-week examination. Soviet doctors ordered him to stop smoking and follow an easier regime. He gave up cigarettes but continued to work long hours...
Anyone's puzzle; everyone's novel: follow boyhood step by step, and try to fix the precise instant at which the enchanted became the ordinary. No writer solves the puzzle, which may account for its continued fascination. Novelist Paul Horgan might almost be playing with another man's board and pieces: a small dusty town in the Southwest; a sensitive young narrator who will live to be a writer; the narrator's friend, an athlete who falls to his death from the town's water tower; a rich widow who befriends the narrator and sends...