Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Church of the Holy Sepulchre would be to Christians, or a profanation of the Wailing Wall would be to Orthodox Jews. Last week, a day before the beginning of the Islamic New Year, a mysterious band of Muslim fanatics seized the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, taking an unknown number of hostages. At week's end, the situation at the Sacred Mosque was unclear. Government officials in Riyadh said that Saudi armed forces, including the crack National Guard commanded by Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, were in "complete control" of the mosque. Other sources, however, suggested that some...
During the three days of the siege, the identity of the attackers remained unknown. The first rumor that spread through the Arab world was that the invaders were Iranian Shi'ites who had been influenced by Khomeini's recent calls for a general uprising by Muslim fundamentalists. Others speculated that the terrorists were members of an extreme Mahdist sect aligned with the Shi'ites. Still others said they were not Shi'ites at all but fanatical Sunni purists known as Wahhabis. At week's end, with the Riyadh regime saying nothing publicly, the best guess...
Burgess, who dined with British Cabinet ministers, concentrated on political intelligence; Maclean was an expert on the U.S. and British atomic-bomb programs. What secrets Blunt gave to the Soviets is unknown. He had no access to classified information after 1945, but he stayed in touch with Soviet intelligence...
Nonetheless, opponents are willing to permit small test projects of the new energy so that the impact of unknown technologies can be fully measured. Says Terry Thoem, a director of the Denver EPA: "We have been studying shale for years, and now we would like to see some further development on a limited scale to get further data on a shale industry's impact-on water tables, on soil, on just about everything...
...checks were made out to cash. Ranking executives made every effort to have their meal checks and other expenses picked up by obsequious subordinates so that if shareholders' inquired at the annual meeting, the brass could boast of modest expense accounts. Spying on a competitor was not unknown...