Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They heard him in 1951, however. On March 8, the day after Ali Razmara, Iran's able, pro-Western Premier, was assassinated, Mossadegh submitted to the Iranian Majlis his proposal to nationalize Iran's oil. In a few weeks a wave of anti-foreign feeling, assisted by organized terrorism, swept him into the premiership...
...late Mohandas K. Gandhi once said of the late Moslem leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah that he had "a difficulty for every solution." The U.N. truce negotiators last week at Panmunjom felt the same way about their Communist opposite numbers. The Reds yielded to a demand that a separate subcommittee be set up to deal with Item 4 (exchange of prisoners) while the first subcommittee was still grappling with Item 3 (supervision of armistice). Soon two subcommittees were grinding away under two tents at Panmunjom. This week, there rose one note of hope: the Reds turned over a list...
...vote of confidence. Afterwards, Opposition Leader Jamal Imami, who talked against Mossadegh but abstained from voting against him, was mobbed outside. The crowd tried to beat him up, overturn his car; police rescued him. As Mossadegh himself emerged, an old merchant named Haji Mohammed Ali Aymaktchi lay down near his car, announced that he was going to slit his own throat as a human sacrifice to the great Mossadegh. Haji was led away, protesting at the lack of patriotic feeling in the police...
...years the Israelis brought in 665,000 newcomers, more than doubling the population. It was as though the U.S. were.to import 50 million new people every year. At one point "Operation Ali Baba" was flying in 1,000 Jews a day from hostile Iraq; "Operation Magic Carpet" flew 55,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel. It was too much for the frail young country to stand...
...three-mile-long line of Egyptians of all classes marched steadily and wordlessly past a million spectators. It was impressively restrained. The politicians and pashas who ostentatiously took places at the head of the parade dropped out after a few blocks and went round to the swank Mohammed Ali Club for refreshments, or were driven away in their limousines. But the people poured on-platoons of lawyers, doctors and merchants, wearing tarbooshes, mingled with battalions of factory workers and street peddlers in skull caps. Copts, Moslems and sheiks marched arm in arm under banners showing the cross and the crescent...