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Surrounded by 3,000 cheering African subjects, Prince Karim, the Aga Khan IV, 21-year-old spiritual leader of 10 million Moslems, dedicated a new Nairobi hospital one day last week, then quietly announced his intention to return to Harvard. Before the end of his junior year, he had taken a leave of absence to attend the stricken Aga Khan III, then assumed the throne when his grandfather died in July 1957. Now, said he, "I decided I should lose no opportunity to equip myself for the future...
Harvard will welcome his return. Karim had been a good student. Like his younger brother Amyn, a junior this year, the prince had made the dean's list. One of his roommates was Adlai Stevenson's youngest son, John Fell, who said: "His friendship is loyal and thoughtful, and he gives more than he takes...
...state. At the U.N., the new Iraqi delegate, Hashim Jawad, took his line from Egypt's shrewd Delegate Omar Loutfi by calling U.S. troops in Lebanon a "threat to international peace'' and a violation of the U.N. charter. Iraq's new Premier, Brigadier General Abdul Karim Kassem, had not talked that way to President Eisenhower's special envoy Robert Murphy the week before...
...first word crackled from the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad. The word: an army junta had overthrown the government and set up a three-man "sovereignty council" led by a little-known army general, Abdel Karim Kassem. From the Baghdad Radio, rechristened "Free Iraq Radio," and Nasser's announcers in Egypt and Syria, came sketchy details, whose authenticity had to be measured against the plotters' desire to stir further panic. Broadcasts said that the junta had seized the capital city before dawn, that wispy Crown Prince Abdul Illah, uncle of the young King, had been assassinated...
Spiritual leader of a sect of the Islam faith, the Aga left Harvard at the end of his Junior year as karim Aga Khan, and succeeded his grandfather last summer...