Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THEY WERE COMRADES-IN-ARMS AND CO-COMMANDers of the Persian Gulf War, but Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia has now issued some fighting words about his old friend General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. At issue is Schwarzkopf's current best seller, It Doesn't Take a Hero, which General Khaled has read and found riddled with "inaccuracies and slanted remarks." In an unusually open gesture for a member of the Saudi royal family, the prince released a public statement accusing the general of exaggerating his own role during the ) conflict ("One has to wonder whether there...
Rosovsky, though, was reluctant to conjecture about the mythical Linsky. "It would be more likely 'Harvard-Sultan of Brunei,'" he says...
...large museum space. So Splendors is installed in the downtown Memphis Cook Convention Center. The 26,000-sq.-ft. facility within the center was built for boat shows, union conventions and the like, but the exhibition's designers have created a temporary museum space befitting the 16th century Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. The King's home at Graceland can't touch...
...Splendors, local architect Louis Pounders recreated a sultan's palace, complete with the asymmetric arrangement of rooms one would find in a structure completed over several generations. "There is a sense of mystery about ((Turkish)) architecture," says Pounders. "I tried to breathe that into the design." Banded arches spring from Islamic columns, windows are scrimmed with haremesque screens, walls are painted to resemble the colorful Iznik tiles renowned throughout the former empire...
Morgenthau has also been taking a tough line with another U.S. ally in the region, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates. "Abu Dhabi has been promising cooperation for a year, but we've gotten nothing out of them," the district attorney said last week. His frustration is understandable: Zayed, now the owner of the tattered remains of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi's erstwhile $20 billion banking empire, has placed 18 of the bank's top officials -- all of them potential witnesses who could help explain the workings...