Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar breed in the Moslem world. Like Egypt's Nasser and Iraq's Kassem, they are ascetic young soldiers resentful of corrupt old ways, antagonistic to the West, and impatient for change. In early March the two, Abdel-Rahim Mohammed Kheir Shennan, 46, and Moheiddin Ahmed Abdullah, 43, with two battalions of troops, quietly surrounded Khartoum, captured Abboud's No. 2 man and held him for 24 hours. Fatherly General Abboud, after hearing the two soldiers' complaints, dismissed his No. 2 man and appointed both Shennan and Moheiddin to places on the ruling Supreme Military Council...
...internal free-for-all that followed Pakistan's birth as a nation, Kassim and Abdullah Bhatti, sons of two fisherman brothers, built up a gold-smuggling empire so vast that prices on the Karachi bullion exchange fluctuated whenever the Bhattis brought in a shipment. Commanding a fleet of twelve ships that rendezvoused with contraband-carrying vessels in the Arabian Sea, and using new Chevrolets that easily outran customs officials' Jeeps on Pakistan's unpaved roads, the first cousins became rich men about town. Paunchy Kassim acquired a winning stable of 17 race horses and a taste...
When the army took over power in Pakistan last October, one of its first acts was to arrest the Bhatti boys. In underwater caves near Karachi, navy frogmen found an incredible two tons of Bhatti gold. Abdullah, closemouthed on the stand but believed to be the brains of the operation, has already been sentenced to life imprisonment. Then Playboy Kassim went on trial-and talked...
...Sheik Abdullah Tariki, 40, and Sheik Hafiz Wahba, 69, were elected directors of the Arabian American Oil Co., first Saudi Arabians to go on the board. Aramco had agreed five years ago to add Saudis to the board, but they did not seem interested until Tariki began his campaign for more say in running the company (TIME, April 27). Tariki, who holds a master's degree in oil engineering from the University of Texas, has steadily campaigned for a bigger cut in Aramco's profits. He wants to force it to become an integrated company in hopes...
Native's Return. Abdullah Tariki, chief of the Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, is the unquestioned spokesman of the new generation of ambitious Arab experts in oil. "Absolutely incorruptible," say U.S. oilmen, who quiver at some of Tariki's ideas. "The only Arab who knows anything about the oil business...