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...would automatically ensure a Moslem majority in the government, which, in turn, would automatically ensure his stay in office. His opponents believe the separate ballot will divide the nation permanently into bitter religious factions and lead inevitably to its dissolution. Two months ago Mirza named Moslem League Leader Ismail Chundrigar as Pakistan's sixth Prime Minister, succeeding bouncy Hussein S. Suhrawardy (TIME, Oct. 28). But last week Pakistan's Republican Party rebelled against Chundrigar's proposal for separate-ballot elections, and withdrew its support...
...President Iskander Mirza to bid for the job of Prime Minister, from which he had just evicted Hussein Suhrawardy. None quite measured up to the President's notions. Then, looking no farther than his partner across the bridge table, Strongman Mirza found just the weak-man he wanted: Ismail Ibrahim Chundrigar, 60, a colorless, back-room politician with almost no popular support...
Scrupulously nonsectarian, it has never tried to indoctrinate. In the 90 years from its founding, it has provided the Arab world with such leaders as Charles Malik, Foreign Minister of Lebanon; Ismail el-Azhari, first Premier of the independent Sudan; and Premiers for Iraq, Syria and Jordan-thus acting as a major catalyst in the rise of Arab nationalism. But last week, as it inaugurated its fifth president-John Paul Leonard, former president of San Francisco State College-it confronted in that very nationalism the greatest challenge of its history...
...million expansion program. At Beirut (2,040 students at university level) he will face even bigger problems. The A.U.B. (which has produced such statesmen as Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, and former Prime Ministers Mohammed Fadil al-Jamali of Iraq, Faris al-Khouri of Syria and Sayed Ismail el-Azhari of Sudan) now runs at an annual deficit of more than $400,000, has the increasingly difficult task of attracting Arab students away from their own growing state-supported universities...
...married and divorced raven-haired Empress Fawzia, Farouk's beautiful younger sister. She is now married to Ismail Shirene Bey. Farouk's attempt to make his brother-in-law War Minister was the final spark that set off last week's army revolt...