Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops and technicians on the island. In return Malta received an estimated $70 million annually in rent and other income. But Malta's emotional and acerbic Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, who once tried to persuade the British to make Malta an integral part of the United Kingdom, decided that he did not want them there at all. The son of a ship's cook, Rhodes scholar Mintoff, 62, bluntly termed their departure Malta's "Day of Freedom...
...most complaints, however, came from librarians, geographers and other academics who specialize in the Middle Kingdom. Libraries seemed to be hardest hit by the switch to Pinyin (Chinese for "phonetic spelling"), with its odd-looking q's, x's and zh's, as they contemplated making millions of changes in card catalogues. The Harvard-Yenching Library, for example, has more than half a million cards in its catalogue, all recorded in Wade-Giles. "We cannot possibly cope with such a change now," says Librarian Wu. Similarly discouraged was the head archivist of the oriental manuscripts section...
...other country in the Middle East is more important to U.S. economic and strategic interests than Saudi Arabia. Because of the immense oil wealth of the desert kingdom, its internal stability and its political moderation in Arab affairs, Washington has regarded Riyadh's support for the Camp David accords as vital to the success of any peace settlement. That support has not been forthcoming, despite pleas from Washington and Cairo. Saudi Arabia views any Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty as essentially bilateral and insists that only a comprehensive settlement involving all the confrontation states holds any real prospect for peace...
Prince Saud al Faisal, 36, the Princeton-educated Foreign Minister, described his country's policy by saying, "It is the unwavering position of the kingdom that all the problems in our area should be solved by Arabs. We do not believe in individual solutions ... Our permanent and basic aim is to foster Islamic and Arabic interests...
Because supporters of home rule can be found on both sides of the devolution issue, as can supporters of a continued United Kingdom, it is not surprising that the significance of the devolution vote is foggy. Add to this the charge that more than ten per cent of the names of Scotland's voting rolls are invalid, and the fact that Britain has no established tradition of referendum, and it becomes clear that the devolution vote will not be the last the world hears of Scottish home rule...