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...document itself is a rambling, 600-page manuscript, written by the 10th century Moslem theologian, Abd-al-Jabbar. About 140 pages of his text consist of an Arabic translation of a much older Syriac account of Nazarene beliefs, probably dating from the 5th century and presumably written by members of the sect. The Nazarenes, who claimed descent from Jesus' first disciples, were driven out of Palestine into Syria around 62 A.D. after a bitter quarrel with other Christians...
...footnote appended to your story concerning the death of Abd el Krim [Feb. 15] indicates that President Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for the famed ultimatum to Raisuli, the notorious Moroccan bandit who had captured and was holding for ransom Ion Perdicaris, a naturalized American, and his stepson, an Englishman named Varley. As a matter of fact it was the brainchild of E. M. ("Eddie") Hood, one of the most revered members of the Washington staff of the Associated Press, Hood was assigned to the State Department many years and because of his knowledge and personality became the confidant of each...
...fortune, who from the age of 16 got into every war worthy of the name; of a stroke; in Salt Lake City. Sweeny fought for the U.S. in the Spanish-American War, for Poland against the Bolsheviks in 1919, for Ataturk in the Turkish revolution, for the French against Abd el Krim in 1925, for the loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. He beat the U.S. into both world wars, serving in the French Foreign Legion early in World War I, where he became the first American ever to earn a commission, and in the R.A.F. in World...
...recent years, Abd el Krim has been confined to his home in a Cairo suburb, suffering from rheumatism, failing sight and heart disease, and listening grumpily to news broadcasts of a new world he disapproved of. Last week, at 81, the Lion of Morocco and survivor of 200 battles died quietly in bed of a heart attack, leaving behind one widow, eleven children, and a homeland saddened because his bones were laid to rest in a graveyard in alien Egypt...
...Died. Abd el Krim, 81, fiery Riff rebel against the Spanish and French in the 1920s; of a heart attack; in Cairo (see THE WORLD...