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Richard Hrair Dekmejian (born 1933, Aleppo, Syria)[ citation needed ] is an Armenian-American Professor Emeritus of political science [1] at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (retired May 2017).[ citation needed ]
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Richard Hrair Dekmejian (born 1933, Aleppo, Syria)[ citation needed ] is an Armenian-American Professor Emeritus of political science [1] at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (retired May 2017).[ citation needed ]
In chess, an X-ray or X-ray attack is a tactic where a piece indirectly controls a square from the other side of an intervening piece. Generally, a piece performing an X-ray either:
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