Word: amins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publishers of the largest and best string of newspapers and magazines in the Middle East, big (238 Ib.) Mustafa Amin and his identical (238 Ib.) twin brother Ali have rightly earned a reputation for being vigorous democrats and courageous reformers. Their weekly Akhbar el Yom (News of the Day-circ. 150,000) and five other publications hammer at government corruption. Yet just before dawn one day last week, eight Egyptian army officers armed with Tommy guns and acting in the name of reform swooped down on the brothers' Cairo home and arrested them. Readers of their papers were astounded...
...Tunisia, since the bloody riots last January, he had seen sabotage flicker over the country like heat lightning. Eleven post offices, seven bridges, 15 trains, 646 telephone poles had been blown up. Every time De Haute-cloque tried for a man-to-man interview with Sidi Mohammed el-Amin, the Bey of Tunis, whom Tunisians regard as their ruler, he found the 70-year-old Bey flanked by nationalist cabinet men. Finally, his patience worn thin, De Hautecloque ordered the Bey to throw the cabinet out. When the Bey appealed over the Resident's head to France...
Sound Evidence. In Louisville, Ky., to bolster his charge that the neighbors' dogs kept him awake at night, James Amin brought a tape recording of their yapping to court...
...Amin el Husseini (59), Mufti of Jerusalem, veteran plotter against British rule in the Middle East, and ruthless enemy of the West. Spent most of World War II in Berlin. In 1946, while awaiting trial in Paris as a war criminal, he escaped, since then has lived in Egypt as King Farouk's honored guest. Ambition: to be head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army...