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Word: fathia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liability. As a result, he has been elbowed out of the political limelight; he is now kept under virtual house arrest in his high-walled villa. Nearly a dozen of his bodyguards have deserted and crossed the border to Sierra Leone to start a new life. His Egyptian wife Fathia, whom he shelved years ago for more comely playmates, has taken refuge in Cairo, refuses to rejoin him or even to allow his three children to visit him. Few visitors bother to call on him. An $18 million frigate that he ordered from a British shipyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: On the Beach | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

Born. To Kwame Nkrumah, 50, Ghana's first Prime Minister, who under the nation's new constitution becomes President this week, and Fathia Halim Ritzk Nkrumah, 30, an Egyptian who first met her proxy-picked husband on their wedding day: their second child, first daughter. Name: Yawa, for Thursday, the day she was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

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