Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobusuke Kishi, ignoring wails from his political opponents, included Formosa in his tour of Southwest Asia, talked with Chiang, and on his return to Tokyo announced that Japan had no plans to recognize Peking "in the foreseeable future." Scheduled to visit Chiang this fall: Iraq's Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes...
...second man on the list got the necessary majority. Malaya's new ruler will be Tuanku Abdul Rahman, of the Malayan state of Negri Sembilan. This is sure to cause endless confusion, because the present Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya is also named Abdul Rahman, and will continue in office as Prime Minister after independence. The name is a common one in Malaya, and they are not related. When both were law students in London, friends had difficulty with their honorifics-the newly elected Paramount Ruler is Tuanku (applied only to rulers and sometimes their eldest sons...
Within hours, recriminations were flying. Egypt demanded the immediate recall of Jordan's Ambassador Abdul Monem Rifai, brother of the Deputy Premier, and Radio Cairo began broadcasting the soldier's taped "confession" that his superiors had sent him equipped with recorder to implicate Colonel Hillal falsely. Jordan retorted that Egyptian military attaches had in recent months been expelled or formally denounced by Libya, Tunisia, the Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, "which was Egypt's best ally." Was it possible that all these Egyptian attaches were innocent...
Several times a week he visits the palace, which counts for a good deal in Iraqi politics by reason of its currently close ties with the army and the suave intriguing of Crown Prince Abdul Illah. (Unlike his cousin Hussein in Jordan, 22-year-old King Feisal is not yet a force in state decisions.) The old Pasha also visits his Defense Ministry desk, but these days his greatest interest is lavished on the work of the Iraq Development Board, which he watches over like a proud mother...
...between a regal round of banquets and state feasts the two Kings, as well as Iraqi Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Iraq's staunchly pro-Western Premier Nuri asSaid, got down to the business at hand: Soviet penetration, via Syria and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, of the Middle East. Saud, who mistrusts the British, watched parades of British-supplied military units, climbed aboard and peered through the hatch of a British Centurion tank. Probably the most significant meeting of the week was a private, unscheduled lunch given for the two monarchs by Premier asSaid at his yellow...