Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long procession and countless do-it-yourself fiestas, brightly costumed citizens, many of them from remote kampongs, beat on Malay drums, Chinese cymbals and Kadazan tom-toms. Sarawak Dyaks played flutes with their noses and blue-clad Chinese acrobats and Bajau horsemen from Sabah performed, while Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, 64, watched from a blue Bentley convertible flanked by three ceremonial elephants...
...whites are not the only people who occasionally stir up racial tension, and British police are quick to crack down on troublemakers of any tint. Last week police arrested Trinidad-born Negro Michael Abdul Malik, 34, the bearded leader of Britain's tiny Black Muslim movement. His alleged crime: making a speech in which he described whites as "vicious and nasty people...
...terrorist group named FLOSY (Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen) declared themselves Aden's "government in exile"; they named a temporary capital at Taiz in Yemen, even appointed a President, 13 Cabinet ministers and two ambassadors (to the Sudan and Egypt). On Cairo radio, FLOSY President Abdul Qawee Mackawee promised Aden "a popular resistance uprising in the coming weeks against imperialists and their agents." For good measure, Cairo radio also demanded King Feisal's assassination, calling him "an enemy of God" who is "selling you out to the British in London...
Rather than cooperate with the U.N.'s fact finders, both extremist groups decided to greet them by calling a general strike and setting off a fresh wave of anti-British rioting. From Cairo, F.L.O.S.Y. Boss Abdul Qawee Mac-kawee smirkingly denied that he had ordered his commandos to kill five Brit ish soldiers a day during the U.N. mission's stay: "I wouldn't want to restrict our people. Perhaps they can kill more than that." Aden's bustling shops were boarded up, its streets patrolled by British armored cars, and its harbor emptied of ships...
Last week's violence was touched off by the shotgun assassination of one FLOSY supporter and a bomb blast that killed three young sons of its leader, Abdul Qawee Mackawee, who is in self-imposed exile in the Egyptian-controlled part of Yemen. Later, two snipers in a mosque minaret fired upon some of the 12,000 mourners in a street funeral procession for Mackawee's sons; a mob rushed up to their perch and hurled them to the street, where they were trampled to death. Though the nationalists seemed to be maiming one another at first...