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...still holds the Iranian schoolgirls' record for the high and standing broad jump, gave birth. "Your Majesty, it's a boy!" cried Dr. Jahanshah Saleh, who is both the Queen's obstetrician and Iran's Minister of Health. The Shah raised his hands over his head in thanks to Allah for the heir for whom he had been hoping 21 years...
...have to hit hard," yells Gaither. "We'll have to run hard . . . We must be hungry." Each Gaither pep talk ends with the team chanting an incantation whose origins are long forgotten: "We have wounded them. They have fallen at our feet. They shall not rise. Allah...
Shamyl had a flare for such dramatics; his men regularly lobbed the heads of spies into Russian camps. And when one faction persuaded his mother to suggest the possibility of surrender, he disappeared into a mosque for three days, then announced: "It is Allah's will that the first person who spoke to me of submission should be punished by a hundred lashes! And this first person is my mother!" He flogged the old lady five times; then, glaring contemptuously at the tribesmen, accepted the rest of her punishment himself...
Anyone so fortunate as to receive mention in TIME should, perhaps, salaam three times to the east and praise Allah from whom all blessings flow. This I humbly...
This buoyant calm was shattered just two nights after the revolution when one of the new government's most hated prisoners, former Interior Minister Namik Gedik, suddenly leaped out of his bed on the top floor of Ankara's military academy. Shrieking "Ya Allah" (O God), he plunged through an unopened double glass window to his death. The hysterical suicide of the boss of Menderes' national police, the man held responsible for beatings and killings of anti-Menderes student demonstrators, shocked the new government and stirred the avenging wrath of the soldiers behind it. Abruptly abandoning...