Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curious Kashmiri newsmen Nehru frankly explained his long avoidance of Kashmir: he had for a long time been "pained and hurt" by the plight of his onetime friend Sheik Abdullah who, with Nehru's reluctant consent, has now spent four years in prison for having flirted with the idea of Kashmiri independence rather than union with India. When it came to explaining why Nehru had ended his boycot-since Sheik Abdullah still sits in jail-Nehru was somewhat less frank. Ostensibly, he had come to look at the receding floodwaters that recently inundated 700 Kashmiri villages. In fact...
...issue was bluntly stated. "The Russians give us threats and the Americans give us money. If you were Premier, which would you take?" asked amiable, water-pipe-smoking Premier Sami Solh. The opposition, headed by former Premier Abdullah el Yafi, heavily attacked Solh's pro-Western policies, and was backed by Egypt and Syria in efforts ranging from plain money (not so plentiful as it used to be) to attempted riots. The U.S., making little effort to disguise its support for Solh, just a day before elections flew in four planeloads of jeeps and recoilless rifles as the first...
...eyes of Arab extremists, Abdullah was a British stooge, and insufficiently eager to resist the birth of Israel. They accused him of not fighting hard enough in the 1948 war, in which Israel held off and beat back its Arab neighbors and macje itself at home in a hostile land. When Abdullah accepted the 1949 armistice with Israel, he inherited the territory of the old Arab part of Palestine west of the Jordan River. It was a rugged land full of holy places-Bethlehem, Calvary and Gethsemane-but bedeviled by hatreds. Its inhabitants call themselves Palestinians, not Jordanians. They numbered...
...July 1951 an embittered Palestinian refugee waylaid old King Abdullah as he went to pray at Jerusalem's sacred Mosque of the Rock. There was a clatter of shots and the stouthearted old King fell dead. One of the assassin's bullets ripped a medal from the chest of 15-year-old Hussein as he walked beside his grandfather. It was a deed that Hussein can never let himself forget...
...time. For a man as enthusiastic as the Sultan of Pahang, however, it may sometimes be hard to keep count. An eternal youth at 52, Sir Abu Bakar Ri'ayatu'd-Din Al-mu'adzam Shah ibni Al-marhum Al-mutasim Bi'llah Sultan Abdullah, soon to celebrate his 25th year as ruler of the largest state in Malaya, is a man as huge (6 ft. i in., 200-plus Ibs.) as his name, and as perenially active as the tongue that tries to pronounce it. An inveterate and skillful marksman, golfer, tennis and polo player...