Word: mideast
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...moments of light or dark humor, and the latest Mideast battle is no exception. In the sand near the canal, an Israeli tank-unit commander counted his vehicles at dawn and discovered that he had one too many. An Egyptian armored personnel carrier, lost in the desert night, had attached itself to the column. The Israelis destroyed it before the Egyptian crew discovered where they were...
Bradley Bloom '75 was at Yom Kippur services in his hometown, Swampscott, when he first heard that a new war had broken out in the Mideast. He remembers being surprised that the Arab nations had chosen that particular time to attack Israeli-held territories, and thought that Israel would win the war very quickly...
Ulam said that the United States and the Soviet Union excluded the Middle East from the detente because neither nation could control the existing situation. Ulam said that "both the nations realized that if the Mideast erupted, then the rules of the game were void...
...Egypt since 1956, when John Foster Dulles, then Secretary of State, withdrew an offer of U.S. aid for the Aswan High Dam. Appropriately enough, it was arranged by an Egyptian-born Lebanese: reddish-haired, bespectacled Roger Tamraz, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate who heads Kidder, Peabody's Mideast office. He plucked the contract from a consortium of 16 European firms that had signed a preliminary agreement to build the pipeline in 1971. Says Tamraz: "It was straight out of the golden age of merchant banking, before accountants and clerks took over so much...
Agnew's crimes will divert attention from the Watergate affair, and in Seymour M. Lipset's words, "This, combined with the Mideast war, will go a long way to taking Nixon off the hook." Number two's resignation probably forecloses the possibility of impeachment proceedings against Number...