Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine months ago Her Majesty's Governor General Ghulam Mohammed, 59, faced with unrest and growing opposition, took it on himself to reduce amiable Premier Mohammed Ali to the stature of a front man and began to rule with a set of decrees which the Pakistan High Court has since challenged. But wanting to be strong, Ghulam Mohammed found his own body weak. Paralyzed by a series of strokes, and unable to speak clearly, last week he agreed to step down from the governor generalship...
...side. The officers who lead Indonesia's quarter-million-man army were in revolt against Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, an admitted Marxist. They refused to accept a chief of staff he approved. Backed by the army brass, Colonel Lubis stood firm against both Kusumasumantri and Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government, which President Soekarno has repeatedly shored up with his own personal prestige...
With the army's ranks unbroken, Marxist Kusumasumantri finally had to quit his defense post, and last week he joined Soekarno on a flying pilgrimage to Mecca. Five days later, Ali Sastroamidjojo's government fell. It had held power for two years, longer than any other of Indonesia's twelve governments in the country's ten years of independence. Involved in the fall was Soekarno's own prestige, though he remains his country's most popular figure...
Daoud also made friendly contact with the Pathan independence leader in West Pakistan, frail, bearded, lumbago-plagued Mirza Ali, also known as the Fakir of Ipi. The Fakir of Ipi's impetuous followers, who love their girls second only to their guns and woo them with a ditty which begins, "Your eyes are two loaded pistols," thereupon increased their pressure on the Karachi government. By now, Prime Minister Daoud, expanding his notion of Pakhtoonistan to include more than half of West Pakistan, was demanding all the territory west of the Indus River, right down to the Arabian...
...revolt of the anti-Communist colonels was proving a major embarrassment to the government of Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo. With national elections coming up next September, there was even talk that Marxist Defense" Minister Kusumasumantri would have...