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Standard bearer of freedom in the old Italian colony (pop. 1,500,000) is Abdullahi Issa, 38. His counterpart in the old British colony (pop. 640,000) is a British-educated rich man's son, Mohammed Ibrahim Egal, 32. When Issa brought up independence last year, Italy told him he could have it whenever he liked. Egal promptly asked for permission to join his colony to the new nation. Britain readily agreed. The two men quickly worked out a merger agreement, and last week the two legislatures simply combined. As the Somali Republic's Provisional President, Issa...
...stands to become the father of this unprepossessing new country is handsome young (37) Premier Abdullahi Issa, and last week he was worried as only a prospective father can be. It was not just that the Italian government has been providing half Somalia's income. There was also the difficulty that, though camels are Somalia's chief source of wealth, much of the Somali nomads' grazing lands lie over the border in Ethiopia. To the frustrated disgust of Somali nationalists, moreover, French Somaliland voted last year to stay in the French Community, and the French, determined...
Greater or Little. A leader with a taste for loud ties but moderate policies, Issa prodded the Italians into their promise of early independence. But then Haji Mohammed Hussein, an oldtime nationalist rabble-rouser whose oratory once made Somalis whip off their scarves in frenzy and fling them into the air, arrived back in Mogadiscio from four years' self-imposed exile as one of Nasser's Cairo broadcasters. Almost at once Haji Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland...
Firing off a reply, Belgrave discovered that the post was that of adviser to Sheik Hamed bin Issa al Khalifah of Bahrein, a 213-square-mile British protectorate composed of five islands lying off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. Charles Belgrave had never heard of Bahrein, but the pay was enough to get married...
Islam does not maintain that its prophet, Mohamed, was divine; it does not deny Jesus (Issa), but calls Him the divinely sent redeemer rather than the Son of God. It permits limited polygamy,* strictly enforces prohibition, but believes in a paradise full of rich, non-intoxicating wines...