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...Karim Aga Khan IV, 22, and Harvard University had a mutually satisfying parting. He got a bachelor of arts degree (with honors in history); Harvard got from the serious-minded Aga Khan, spiritual head of some 20 million Ismaeli Moslems, $50,000 for scholarships to Middle Eastern students, preferably Moslems, over the next ten years. Said he: "I know now that I shall never regret the decision I took after succeeding to my grandfather's title to return and complete my studies at Harvard . . . This university is among the greatest inspirers of liberal scholarship in the modern world...
...Karim Aga Kahn '59, who graduates with the Class of 1959 tomorrow, has established a ten-year program of scholarships for students attending Harvard from India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Persia, and East Africa...
...recent weeks Iraqi Communists have used their virtually unchallenged control of the country's press and radio to push for their next objective: membership in Premier Karim Kassem's Cabinet. Last fortnight mild-spoken General Kassem replied with characteristic obliqueness: "I do not encourage parties and party life at present." The Reds continued to praise Kassem as "our savior leader," kept up their insistent demands for office. But last week the left-wing National Democrats, the only political party with open representation in the Cabinet, and a party that has often worked in the past with the Communists...
...British decided last week to take a chance on Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem...
These days the most popular Arabian nights' entertainments are the televised trials staged in Baghdad by the Iraqi People's Court, under the presidency of Premier Karim Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Mahdawi. Premier Kassem himself is known to have turned on the television in the middle of a Cabinet session, listened to the colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed...