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...Urirchar late last week the winds were calm and the sea lapped softly against noiseless beaches. But there was little peace -- or hope -- among those who had survived the night of terror. At the ill-equipped local relief camp, 26-year-old Ayesha Begum plaintively told of how she had spent two days searching for the bodies of her husband and two children. She had not found any of them. "Why," asked the widow, fighting back tears, "why is Allah so unkind as to keep me alive?" Her question, like her prayer, was unanswered...
Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 37, Harvard-educated spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, who regard him as a 49th-generation direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed, and the Begum Aga Khan, 33, formerly Sarah Croker Poole, a British model: their third child, second_son; in Chambésy, Switzerland. Name: Hussain...
...streets of Dacca, shouting, dancing, singing, firing rifles into the air and roaring the now-familiar cry of liberation "Joi Bangla." Many of the rejoicing citizens made a pilgrimage to the small bungalow where Mujib's wife and children had been held captive by the Pakistani army. The Begum had spent the day fasting. "When I heard the gun fire in March it was to kill the people of Bangladesh," she tearfully told the well-wishers. "Now it is to demonstrate their...
Latest additions to the annual January infestation of lists include the traditional couturier-cum-socialite choice of Best-Dressed Women (No. 1: the Begum Ago Khan, No. 2: Mrs. Ronald Reagan); Fashion Designer Mr. Blackwell's Worst-Dressed women (No. 1: Actress AM MacGraw, No. 2: Jacqueline Onassis); the Motion Picture Herald's poll for 1971 Box Office Star (No. 1: John Wayne, No. 2: Clint Eastwood); Dr. Joyce Brothers' radio poll for Most Sex-Appealing Men (No. 1: Vice President Spiro T. Agrtew, No. 2: Actor Paul Newman); and the Fashion Foundation of America...
Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 34, Imam, or spiritual leader, of 20 million Ismaili Moslems; and the Begum, Princess Salima, 31, onetime London fashion model and former wife of Lord James Crichton-Stuart; their second child, a son and heir to the title; in Pregny, Switzerland. Name: Rahim...