Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Maldives passed smoothly into another stage of political evolution. Ibrahim and another cousin, Ibrahim Ali Didi, tossed cousin Amin Didi in jail and took over the government themselves. Just what the political stage was at that point no outsider knew, since the Maldives' only connection with the world is through still another cousin, Ahmed Hilmi Didi, who promptly quit his job as ambassador to Ceylon. "I have been kept completely in the dark," said Ahmed Didi last week. "All I know is that Amin Didi has resigned...
After 58 leaderless days, Indonesia had a new coalition government, its 14th in the brief eight years of its existence. The new Prime Minister was goateed Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, 50, who was recalled as Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S. to take the job. Sastroamidjojo had been running up & down the U.S., urging American businessmen to invest in his country...
Last week dapper, handsome young (36) Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin, He Who Is Made Lord of all Brunei, announced a five-year plan to make Brunei Asia's first welfare state. Prepared to spend the equivalent of $650 on each of his 50,000 subjects, the Sultan included in his program free medical services, the building of 30 new schools and new hospitals, an airport, a hotel, sanitation and power plants. There would be social security for widows, orphans, lepers, the blind and the aged. Promising youngsters would be sent abroad on scholarships...
...fortnight ago, when Nehru and Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammed Ali had parted smiling at Karachi, it had seemed that the historic conflict between Hindu and Moslem over the beautiful Vale of Kashmir might in time be stilled. Now, peace seemed suddenly very far away...
...more than 500,000 Hindus and Moslems were killed, and 12 million made homeless during the carnage that followed the partition of India. There was hope that the two nations, by forgoing their old suspicions, might reduce their crippling defense budgets (50% for India, 65% for Pakistan). Said Mohammed Ali: "The resources that both countries are now devoting to arming themselves against each other . . . could be devoted to the great task of raising deplorably low living standards...