Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Aristotle Socrates Onassis signed an agreement with King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz to form a company for shipping Saudi Arabian oil (TIME, Feb. 22), the Greek-born tanker tycoon has found his scuppers awash with criticism. Other shippingmen attacked the deal as a step toward monopolizing the shipment of Saudi Arabian oil;* the British and U.S. Governments both protested to Saudi Arabia that the deal would squeeze out shipping companies now carrying the oil. And Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco) complained that its interests as a producer were endangered...
...Abdul Latif, a 32-year-old Cairo tinsmith, a Moslem Brother since 1938. Two months ago a secret Brotherhood group had picked him to kill Nasser. His confession was all the regime was waiting for; at last the cops felt free to go after the powerful Moslem Brotherhood, the last legal opposition to Nasser...
...other two forums will be "How Should the U.N. Charter Be Revised?" with Ernest Gross and Norman Cousins, December 10; and a two-day discussion March 18 and 19 on Arab-Israel problems with Abba Eban, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., and Abdul Rashid, Lebanon delegate...
...Pakistan's Abdul Khaliq, 21, "fastest man in Asia," who, after only two years of running, won the 100-meter dash in 10.6 seconds (Olympic record...
...Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan .stands 6 ft. 3 in., and once weighed 220 Ibs. He has a martial beak of a nose and a clipped white beard. Though at 63 he is ailing, he used to look capable of tearing a bullock apart with his hands. For the past 30 years, Ghaffar Khan has practiced and preached nonviolence. He was Gandhi's chief convert among the Moslems, and in the rugged Khyber Pass region he is still known as "the Frontier Gandhi...