Word: hadi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palimpsest. In Teheran, after being questioned intensively about dealing in opium, Hadi Hashimi allowed the narcotics squad investigators to kiss his Koran as an apology for bothering him, was hauled off to jail when 375 grams of opium were discovered in a hole in the book's pages...
...Nizam met the love of his life-a dancing girl named Leila who became one of his begums, has since presented him with five sons and two daughters. Last week, in the familiar role of father of the bride, the Nizam presided over the wedding of Mash-Hadi, the 19-year-old eldest daughter of Favorite Leila...
...Cemeteries. Ben-Gurion is the kind of man who provokes strong reactions. "He is a man nobody can talk to, reason with or deal with," says Jordan's Education Minister Auni Abdel Hadi. Admirers call him another Churchill; others, like one State Department official, consider him "the most dangerous man in the Middle East." "Ben-Gurion is not a full man," says Sheik Farouki, leader of Arab refugees in Jericho. "He is a poet . . . not a man of facts. He wanted to build a new nation by raiding cemeteries and making a people from the bones of history." Says...
From his GHQ at Abbasiya Barracks early one morning this week, flying squads roared into Cairo, rounded up 62 sleepy-eyed politicians and former palace officials, jailed the lot in Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely...