Word: caliphal
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...century Caliph Harun al-Rashid once took a Heraclean slave girl into his harem. So homesick was she that the Caliph built for her an exact replica of Heraclea, her native Greek city, at her exile on the banks of the Euphrates. To many the American enclave of the Panama Canal Zone seems such a Heraclea, almost a parody of country-club America, an elegant company town set down in the Panamanian jungle. But that picture is something of at stereotype, as TIME'S Bernard Diederich discovered when he visited the zone last week. Diederich s report...
Where else, again, would a president, without his being in the least deterred from his policy of invasion and mass bombing in Southeast Asia, yet feel so distressed at the misunderstanding of him by young protestors that, like some Arabian nights caliph wandering at night through the streets of his own capital, and mingling with the common people, he would get up hours before dawn, leave the White House, and talk to some of the student demonstrators...
...fact, the dramatization was more like the Children of God of two years ago (TIME, Jan. 24, 1972). Today the Children are scattered to the four corners of the earth, preaching doom to America, buttering up Libya's latter-day caliph, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and loosening up their sex ethics enough to lure new members. Only a few hundred of the 3,000 or so hard-core members remain in the U.S. The reason, according to Founding Father David Berg, alias "Moses David," has to do with the comet Kohoutek, which was supposed to herald catastrophe to the nation...
...Ismet Inönü, 89, first Prime Minister of modern Turkey; of a heart attack; in Ankara. When the Sultan was deposed and Turkey became a republic in 1923, Kemal Atatürk as President and Inönü as Prime Minister abolished the semireligious office of Caliph and began to westernize the country's educational, legal, military and industrial systems. Inönü was elected President in 1938 and served until his defeat in the election of 1950. From 1961 to 1965 he was once again Premier; after leaving office he continued to influence...
...with a group of fellow Palestinians to plan for the war against Israel. "They proclaimed King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan as commander of their army," he said, "and several members of the group proposed that Abdullah, a descendant of the Prophet, should ride on a white horse like a caliph at the head of his troops. Twenty-five years later, their sons are fighting with some of the most sophisticated weaponry ever used...