Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungry Mobs. Last month a religious group known as the Ahraris, influenced by fanatic mullahs, demanded that the government declare half a million members of the Ahmadiya sect to be non-Moslems. The Ahmadiyas are a close-knit and unpopular group, followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who at the turn of the century declared himself a Nabi, or prophet of Allah. There was politics in the mullahs' demands, because Pakistan's Foreign Minister, able, bearded Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, is an Ahmadiya.* The Ahraris' mullahs demanded his removal. When the government refused, the mullahs began stirring...
...Imperialism. Last January U.S. Ambassador Merle Cochran sent the Mutual Security Pact offer across to Foreign Minister Ahmad Subarjo, duly received it back with a few marginal alterations by Indonesia. Now that the Mutual Security Agency has replaced the Economic Cooperation Administration, a few strings had been attached by the U.S. Congress: before getting those Yankee dollars, foreign governments had to acknowledge their adherence to "the free world." Subarjo disliked these conditions, but signed. A couple of days later two U.S. Army colonels went down to see Defense Minister Sewaka about another matter: a shipment of arms privately purchased...
Nehru tried to dress up his surrender to Tandon as a gesture for "unity," but his followers were not fooled. Last week two of his cabinet ministers, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (Communications) and A jit Prasad Jain (Rehabilitation) resigned from the Congress Party, but stayed on in the cabinet at Nehru's plea. (Their remaining in office, jeered Tandon, created an "impossible situation.") Other dissidents are sure to follow them. Said a veteran Congressman: "Nehru has no guts. He dislikes all that Tandon stands for, but he will campaign to get Tandon's nominees elected to Parliament to insure...
...morning last week, Ahmad Matin Daftary, Premier Mohammed Mossadeq's son-in-law and chief strategist of the Majlis temporary Oil Nationalization Board, loped along the corridors of Anglo-Iranian's low, yellow brick headquarters in Khorramshahr, twelve miles from Abadan. An associate, Nassir Gholi Ardalan, hurried behind. Beaming, Daftary said: "We're moving into our new offices, upstairs." They marched into the rooms of General Manager Eric Drake, who had gone to Basra, Iraq, 40 miles away, because he feared arrest on trumped-up "sabotage" charges. In Drake's office, they confronted Assistant General Manager...
...carpentry shop at Manila's Camp Murphy, operated by reformed Huks. This month, making mess tables for the Philippine army, the shop netted a profit of $582. Said Foreman Manuel Caiyot, a onetime Huk leader known as Ahmad the Killer: "I didn't believe it, but here we are, doing business with the army and getting cash instead of bullets...