Word: hadj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chandrajit Yadav, a former minister of the Indian National Congress Party in Indira Ghandi's government. Jose Carlos Lobo, Mozambique's ambassador to the United Nations, and Helen Hadj Petrou, member of the presidium of the Greek National Peace Movement, are scheduled to attend the conference...
Carter's meeting with Assad last week was euphoric. Unlike Hussein and Sadat, the Syrian President had turned down Carter's invitation to make a political hadj to Washington. So Carter took a day off from the London summit to confer with Assad in Geneva. The President effusively described the Syrian as "great," "brilliant" and one of his "favorite leaders"-even though the two were meeting for the first time...
...were in chronically short supply. Hundreds of bottles of freshly donated blood were left behind in Istanbul because Turkish airline authorities were unable to provide air transport for delivery. The reason: many of their planes were en route to Saudi Arabia, loaded with Moslem pilgrims intent on making the hadj. Only 400 tents and 470 blankets could be provided in the first stages of the rescue mission; survivors huddling against the 10° F. cold were forced to huddle around fires amid the wreckage of their homes...
...huge amounts of money within five years to balance oil production with such industrial activities as petrochemical production, steelmaking, shipbuilding and fertilizer manufacture. Not surprisingly, the plans have whetted great interest abroad. Moslems who arrived at Jeddah in record numbers last month on their way to make the annual hadj or pilgrimage to Mecca had to share facilities with another brand of pilgrim. These had business suits and attache cases instead of shaved heads and white prayer garments, and they were seeking slices of the vast petrodollar expenditures...
Died. Ahmed Messali Hadj, 76, patriarch of the Algerian nationalist movement; in Paris. Tireless and magnetic, Messali began assailing French colonialism in the 1920s, spent years in jail and under house arrest, and saw himself as the Gandhi of North Africa. But when the struggle for Algerian independence intensified in the 1950s, he was regarded as an ineffectual anachronism by the militant F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). Ignored by the Algerian government after independence, Messali lived out his years an exile in France...