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...collection of cells consisting of 61 members had duped a large number of people out of "huge amounts of money" in raising funds for its operations, including the training of suicide pilots outside the country. The ministry said that the leader of the group, who was not identified, received baya, or allegiance as an Islamic authority, from its members in a secret ceremony at the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam's holiest site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saudi Arrests: How Big a Plot? | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...chases Baya through the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born Again | 7/17/2004 | See Source »

...inner strength to continue his work while convalescing at a Buddhist monastery. Soon a powerful prefect "commissions" him, under the threat of death, to sculpt the legendary Phoenix. Given three years to accomplish this, Akanemaru begins a quest to find the bird. Meanwhile Gao falls in love with a Baya, a woman who appears from nowhere and becomes his captive. When Gao gets an infection of the nose (it balloons to resemble a hideous eggplant in a typical bit of Tezuka humor) he mistakenly believes Baya to be the cause. In a masterful scene of beauty and brutality, the furious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born Again | 7/17/2004 | See Source »

...francs were gone, and it had to send a hurry call to Paris for more. By last week, more than 125,000 grams of gold had been sent to France. During one month alone, the government had paid out more than 22 million French African francs to Kaka and Baya tribesmen bringing in gold dust in penicillin bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMEROONS: Gold Rush | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...district, as others scratched away on the creekside for the things they wanted most, only Gold Discoverer David Ambo was sad and idle. "A big Baya-man, who knows all things," said David gloomily, "he told me that the one who discovers gold must never touch it. If he does, the spirits will make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMEROONS: Gold Rush | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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