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...Egypt's 360-seat Parliament. An active feminist, she held her own in a remarkable debate last year with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who had come to Cairo to explore the possibilities of a merger between Egypt and Libya. Takla, who is married to Police General and Criminologist Karim Darwish, rebutted Gaddafi's chauvinistic brand of Islamic fundamentalism by arguing that it reduced women to a secondary role. When Gaddafi protested that women were weak, Takla retorted that "only in weak societies are women weak." Among the feminists present who cheered her on: Jehan Sadat, 40, the President...
...Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 37, Harvard-educated spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, who regard him as a 49th-generation direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed, and the Begum Aga Khan, 33, formerly Sarah Croker Poole, a British model: their third child, second_son; in Chambésy, Switzerland. Name: Hussain...
...together with ordinary mannequins, would stage a kind of high-budget vaudeville called "Le Grand Divertissement à Versailles." The money? Ah, yes, patrons like the Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild would angel the operation, and people like Amanda Burden, Princess Grace, the Charles Revsons and Karim Aga Khan would lend their glamorous names as sponsors. Last week it all happened, more or less as planned. But as with the 1770 fireworks, there was rain on the big parade. In fact, the preparations preceding the show demonstrated just how bad Franco-American relations can be even where...
...sounded almost like a dream ten years ago, when a syndicate headed by Karim, the young Aga Khan, announced the development of Sardinia's Costa Smeralda as a multimillion-dollar superresort. Hotels have since been abuilding, tourists arriving, yachts dropping anchor. But then it began to look like a dream again. Said Karim: "We have not found the expected support in Sardinia." Moved by the jet set's response, Karim promptly reversed himself. Once more the dream seems real...
...Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 34, Imam, or spiritual leader, of 20 million Ismaili Moslems; and the Begum, Princess Salima, 31, onetime London fashion model and former wife of Lord James Crichton-Stuart; their second child, a son and heir to the title; in Pregny, Switzerland. Name: Rahim...