Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coup-ridden Iraq seldom overthrows its leaders gently. In 1958, Iraqis gunned down King Feisal II and dismembered Premier Nuri as-Said's corpse. When they deposed Soldier-President Abdul Karim Kassem in 1963, the rebels tommy-gunned him, dragged his body to a television studio, then switched on the cameras to show the public the gruesome spectacle. Last week there was an other coup in Iraq, but this time it was relatively civilized...
...night, a high-ranking army officer rang up slumbering President Abdul Rahman Aref and announced: "I am speaking from the Ministry of Defense. Tanks are now proceeding toward the palace." Aref received quick confirmation when five warning shots split the quiet night. He chose to capitulate. Soon, with hardly a hint of further violence, he was put aboard a special Iraqi airliner to join his ailing wife in London. In his place, a nine-man, military "revolutionary Command Council" effortlessly established itself in power...
...brother, King Feisal, who deposed him in 1964, that he's not welcome in his homeland. In Greece, where he now hitches his camel, the 67-year-old monarch could not even summon a smile when his daughter, Princess Apta, 23, presented him with a new grandson named Abdul Aziz. There was good reason for Saud's glumness: he already has supported countless ex-wives, 45 sons, 46 daughters and perhaps 100 grandchildren...
Bodies on Poles. Republican President Abdul Rahman Iryani's only answer was to go off to Cairo for what Nasser's official press agency described as "a medical checkup." Foreign Minister Hassan Macky also left Yemen, showing up nearly a week early for an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo called to decide on an Arab summit. That left the government in charge of Field Marshal Hassan al-Amri, the army commander. Al-Amri declared a 6 p.m. curfew, ordered civilians to form militia units "to defend the republic." In Liberation Square, a howling mob watched...
British press laws are among the most stringent in the Western world and newsmen are properly chary of them. Truth is never a defense. Even so, the London Sunday Times was not wary enough when it ran a picture caption descnbmg Michael Abdul Malik, a Black Muslim indicted for inciting race hatred, as a "brothel keeper, procurer and property racketeer." That was the truth but it revealed Malik's record before he came to trial-a violation of the law. Times Editor Harold Evans was haled into court on contempt charges...