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criticism of the kingdom.
Maha Yahya, director of the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East, said that with the Syrian war calming
down, Hariri’s move could be a message from Saudi Arabia to Iran that it “can’t have it all.”
“So Lebanon is back on the table as a stage for the next tug of war,” she said.
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Associated Press writer Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Nasser Kariri in Tehran and Aron Heller in Jerusalem
contributed to this report.
Today in History By The Associated Press
Today in History
Today is Sunday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2017. There are 56 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Nov. 5, 1942, American showman and songwriter George M. Cohan died in New York at age 64. On this date:
In 1605, the “Gunpowder Plot” failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English
Parliament.
In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony de ed the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses
S. Grant. (Anthony was convicted by a judge and ned $100, but she never paid the penalty.)
In 1912, Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating Progressive Party candidate
Theodore Roosevelt, incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and Socialist Eugene V. Debs.
In 1916, a dockside confrontation in Everett, Washington, between members of the Industrial Workers of the World and citizen-deputies erupted into gun re that left at least ve “Wobblies” and two deputies
dead.
In 1935, Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.”
In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in of ce as he defeated
Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
In 1956, Britain and France started landing forces in Egypt during ghting between Egyptian and Israeli
forces around the Suez Canal. (A cease- re was declared two days later.)
In 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Democratic Vice President Hubert
H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. Wallace.
In 1974, Democrat Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the rst woman to
win a gubernatorial of ce without succeeding her husband.
In 1985, Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at age
90; he was succeeded by Ezra Taft Benson.
In 1994, former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer’s disease.
In 2009, a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan,
an Army psychiatrist, was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
Ten years ago: Hollywood writers began a three-month strike, forcing late-night talk shows to imme-
diately start airing reruns. Police in major Pakistani cities red tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s emergency rule. Joe Torre was introduced as the new manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, less than three weeks after walking away from the New York Yankees.
Five years ago: On the eve of the presidential election, President Barack Obama and Republican chal- lenger Mitt Romney held rallies seven miles apart in Columbus, Ohio. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a South Carolina sheriff’s of ce could be held liable for attorneys’ fees for stopping abortion protesters who wanted to hold up signs showing aborted fetuses.
One year ago: Republican Donald Trump vowed to press into Democratic strongholds over the campaign’s nal days as Hillary Clinton looked to an army of A-list celebrities and politicos to defend her narrowing path to the presidency. Arrogate overhauled pacesetter California Chrome in the nal 100 yards in an