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The Administration's approval of the raid shocked moderate Arab states. At the United Nations, the Security Council condemned the Israeli raid by a vote of 14 to 0, with the U.S. abstaining. Tunisian Foreign Minister Beji Caid Essebsi called the attack an act of "state terrorism" aimed at sabotaging...
In the shops of Baghdad, Iraq's capital, American cigarettes and Turkish beer are once again on sale. To Iraqi citizens, who watched the fifth anniversary of the war with Iran pass this week, the availability of products from abroad provided an unaccustomed sense of well-being. Another good omen...
The message was tapped out on an old-fashioned Morse telegraph key. It came from the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan and was received by a guerrilla listening post on the Pakistani border. "We have been without sleep for 48 hours," the report read. "It is the biggest battle...
Elsewhere, the value of marriage may be incalculable, but in the United Arab Emirates, men feel that it is not worth $50,000. Women often demand sums of that size in the Emirates, where dowries are supplied by grooms rather than by brides. Young women in this Persian Gulf federation...
The five students on the committee met periodically with department representatives Oleg Grabar, Khan Professor of Islamic Art, and department Chairman Neil Levine Although charges of sex discrimination prompted the dialogue, the meetings focussed more on improving the graduate student advising system, fellowship program and other areas of student life...