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...rich Arab sheiks whose sumptuous private planes are serviced by his Houston-based firm. One of his customers is Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, president of the United Arab Emirates, who paid $10 million in 1974 for a Grumman Gulfstream II, equipped with royal blue morocco-leather seats and gold seat-belt buckles...
...Gibraltar Basketball Federation is currently organizing a tournament involving the Classics, and teams from Morocco, England and Gibraltar. In the meantime, the Basketeers are in the process of raising money to cover their airfare...
...jobs for a population that has grown from 12 million to 18 million since he took over. In foreign affairs, Boumedienne lost some prestige in the Arab world by backing and providing bases for the Polisario rebels, who seek to wrest the former Spanish Sahara from neighboring Morocco and Mauritania. His successor must decide whether to continue that fight...
Sadat too is under great pressure. It comes primarily from his fellow Arab leaders who have made Camp David a swear word because, in their view, it largely ignored the question of a Palestinian homeland and skirted the issue of sovereignty over East Jerusalem. Only Morocco and Sudan, of all the Arab states, have endorsed Camp David. This has disappointed Cairo and Washington, which had counted on backing for Sadat from such moderate countries as Jordan, Tunisia and especially Saudi Arabia...
...become substitutes, in people's minds, for the real thing. Mechanical reproduction clumsily mimics but cannot replace the intimate spontaneity and directness of an artist's touch. The clone trade is to real art and its audience what Franklin Mint medals are to numismatists, or vinyl-morocco Great Books to bibliophiles...