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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...ladies to Washington, should social invitations include either, neither, or both wives? To their relief, the hostesses read at week's end that Ali had partially solved their problem. He will, according to word from Pakistan, bring to the U.S. only Begum No. 2, Canadian-born Lebanese Aliya Saadi, his "prosperity" bride. But the capital's party-givers were still slightly upset: they had grown fond of popular Begum No. 1, Hamida, when Aliya was a lowly, belowstairs secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Married. Mohammed AH. 46. Prime Minister of Pakistan: and Aliya Saadi, 28. Ali's former social secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beirut, Lebanon. Still married to Hamida, mother of his two sons, Ali took his second wife under Moslem law. which permits a man to have four wives at a time if they are treated "with justice and equity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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