Word: abdulgani
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...giants, but their successors gathering in Jakarta today are just half-giants. That is better than dwarfs." ROESLAN ABDULGANI, Indonesian diplomat who served as secretary general for the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung...
...Tashkent-based Muslim board for Central Asia, the most important of the four government-imposed bureaucracies for Soviet Islam, Deputy Chairman Abdulgani Abdulla recalls that "almost nobody was interested in religion" in the 1960s. Now, he reports, large numbers are becoming active believers, many of them young people. "None of the philosophies except the religious ones are able to satisfy men's needs," he maintains. The leader of the Muslim board for Transcaucasia, Allahshukur Pasha-zada, declares that until recently "freedom of conscience was on paper only." The pre-Gorbachev regimes, he says, "destroyed all the values of the people...
...problem is one that bothers every new nation -reconciling the need for system and order with democratic procedures when no one has much experience in such matters. Worked out in collaboration with his able Prime Minister Djuanda and National Council Chief Ruslan Abdulgani...
...goateed Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo was all but impotent, its members amounting to little more than messenger boys for the bosses of eight bickering political parties. Grafting had become so much of a public scandal that last week Indonesia's Attorney General brought charges against Foreign Minister Roeslan Abdulgani, whom the press accused of having accepted $130,000 in bribes...
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