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...Malacca jungle last week, Acting Police Corporal Roslan Bin Haji Mohammed waited three nights for his quarry. Someone had "whispered," i.e., informed, against noisy, hunchbacked Cheung Kit Ming, better known as "the Ape of Malacca." A top Communist guerrilla, a veteran killer and terrorist, Cheung had a $25,000 price on his head. On the third night of the ambush, the Ape appeared and the police corporal shot him dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: No Murders Today | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...vote of confidence. Afterwards, Opposition Leader Jamal Imami, who talked against Mossadegh but abstained from voting against him, was mobbed outside. The crowd tried to beat him up, overturn his car; police rescued him. As Mossadegh himself emerged, an old merchant named Haji Mohammed Ali Aymaktchi lay down near his car, announced that he was going to slit his own throat as a human sacrifice to the great Mossadegh. Haji was led away, protesting at the lack of patriotic feeling in the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Hero's Return | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Slice of Life. In Burganj, India, death came to Haji Ghulam Mohammed, 127, married ten times (one wife tried to poison him), a father 32 times (oldest living child 85; youngest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1945 | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Thirteen centuries ago the Prophet Mohammed called upon his followers to make a haj (pilgrimage) to his native Mecca at least once in their lifetimes in order to gain favor in the eyes of Allah. For 13 centuries, pious Moslems have done so, and thereafter been honored as haji. From India some 11,000 pilgrims annually made the trip. But last week India's Moslems heard from Delhi that sea transport for the haj (only feasible route from India) was out for the duration. Reason: enemy subs in the Indian Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Raj Bans the Haj | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Thirteen centuries ago Mohammed gave a spiritual and material boost to his native Mecca by calling upon his followers to make a pilgrimage thither at least once in their lifetimes. Pious Moslems have been making the Haj ever since, thus gaining the privilege of: 1) being called Haji (pilgrim), 2) wearing green turbans, 3) dyeing their beards red with pounded hennaleaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Redbeards to Mecca | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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