Word: abboud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...butchery as the Bahutu of Rwanda set out to eliminate their former Watutsi masters. Poisoned arrows zipped through the Congo's Kwilu province in the latest chapter of that sad nation's four-year history. In the Sudan, black secessionists battled the Arab government of Dictator Ibrahim Abboud. And last week, in Gabon, mobs hurled stones and bottles at the French troops who had restored bold, autocratic President Leon Mba to power last month after an abortive, 42-hour coup...
Died. Ahmed Abboud Pasha, 74, Egypt's richest businessman in the days before Nasser's "Arab socialism," a minor merchant's son who started out as a civil engineer but soon decided that there were more piasters in trade, in the 1940s and '50s piled up a $100 million empire in chemicals, paper, shipping, sugar and cotton, only to have it all nationalized by Nasser in 1961; of heart and kidney ailments; in London...
...Moslem to a man. Most of the 4,000,000 inhabitants of the swampy and forest-covered south are black Africans, who know that in the days before British rule Arab traders sold their ancestors into slavery and have long sought some measure of local autonomy from Dictator Ibrahim Abboud's all-Moslem government. Since Independence Day in 1956, the Southern Sudan has been intermittently torn by riots, strikes and revolts. The government charges that European and American missionaries backed the insurrections, and has steadily cut into Christian religious rights. Friday was made the national day of rest...
...SUDAN (Br. & Egyptian)Pop.: 12,100,000. Size: 967,500 sq. mi. Literacy: 5%. School enrollment: 318,000. College graduates: 200 plus. Christians: Less than 2%. Moslems: 80%. Strongman Ibrahim Abboud seeks unified Moslem state. Few savage practices...
Music & Hunting. Such attention to detail marks all the Kennedys' efforts as host and hostess. Jackie plays an active part in picking suitable gifts for White House guests. One recent visitor, Ferik Ibrahim Abboud, President of the Sudan, got a specially made Winchester hunting rifle, delightedly replied: "I come from a country where there are 13 million people and 100 million wild animals." While the President impresses visitors with searching questions about their countries, Jackie carefully plans the menus to suit their tastes, often escorts the guests on a tour of the White House. The Kennedys have the Marine...