Word: ali
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan's Premier Mohammed Ali, a cricket player who also likes baseball, reached the U.S. on a state visit last week too late for the World Series but much impressed by the Cleveland Indians' defeat. "You have proved to me," quipped Ali, whose country is at odds with Nehru's nation, "that the Indians are overrated...
...visit, Mohammed Ali plans to make a dozen talks, to see Old Faithful and Mt. Rushmore's heroic sculptures, and to get a medical checkup, a Columbia honorary degree and a tribal welcome from the Blackfeet Indians. This week in Washington he will confer with President Eisenhower on "matters of mutual interest." This month the U.S. plans to send Pakistan its first arms shipment under the new mutual-aid pact...
...Asia, the U.S. has no better friend than hustling, bustling Mohammed Ali, 45, who runs the world's sixth largest nation (pop. nearly 80 million). "I'm on the side of the U.S.," he has said. "I think personally that the U.S. is doing a great job, and I want...
...Ali's behavior interested the colonel; ten years before. Ali had resigned his commission, saying that "the army is rotten through and through"; since then he had held influential, behind-the-scenes jobs in the Red Tudeh Party. In 1946, Ali was liaison man in Teheran for the short-lived Azerbaijan Soviet republic. Knowing all this, Colonel Sepahpur was suddenly curious to know the contents of Ali's worn suitcase. The colonel grabbed and hefted it. "This suitcase seems very heavy for a sick man to carry," the colonel grunted...
Code No. 3. At headquarters, officers found inside Ali's suitcase a detailed plan of Saadabad Palace, the Shah's summer home, and a complete schedule of the guards' movements. There were other papers, mostly in three codes. Ali, a dedicated Communist, was questioned for eight days before he broke. At last, on the night of Aug. 24, he admitted that the Tudeh had an organization inside the army officers' corps. On Aug. 30, cryptographers cracked two of the codes, but the third, an elaborate trigonometric cipher, would not give. Two colonels went to work night...