Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first reaction of the outside world. The British and French governments publicly hailed the new plan. The Arab world was divided: the Baghdad Pact nations in favor and the extreme Nasser nationalists against. "We reject most categorically the theory of a vacuum," said Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdullah Rimawy...
...which local contractors refused to supply, had to be flown in from outside. If the British subsidy ends, and nobody else matches it, Jordan will have a hard time holding its place on the map-where it was put by Winston Churchill, genially creating a kingdom for his friend Abdullah...
...bluster of yesterday were missing last week when the last British soldiers pulled out of another great outpost of Empire. Five days before the deadline set by the Anglo-Egyptian agreement, Brigadier John H. S. Lacey handed over the keys of his Suez Canal headquarters to Lieut. Colonel Abdullah Azouni of the Egyptian army and quietly led the last 91 of Britain's 80,000-man garrison aboard a landing craft bound for Cyprus...
...first conducted a war of terrorism against the territory's Italians, killing more Europeans than were slain in Kenya's Mau Mau revolt. But tribesmen have been won over by Italy's patience and good will. "Somalis will always be grateful to Italy," said Aden Abdullah. Last week, with its ten-year trusteeship term half over, Italy turned over all legislative power to an elected native Parliament. Abdullah's party, dedicated to modernization of the Somalis' age-old tribal life, and opposed by traditionalist tribal parties, won 43 out of 63 seats...
...Abdullah wears European suits and Somali headdress, and is a man in transition like his country. "I was born in the wilds," said he. "My parents were nomads and my birth was never registered. I think I am 38 but of course I am not certain...