Word: khan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Publicly, he is forced to approve Algerian peace talks. But if they succeed, Nasser might well find himself looking in from the outside on an Arab, French-oriented "Maghreb" made up of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco. In the world of Islam, Iran has extended Israel de facto recognition. President Ayub Khan of Pakistan has no use for Nasser's neutralism...
...Xang. A branch of the Thai peoples, the Lao were driven out of southern China by Kublai Khan in the 13th century and fled south to the valleys of the Mekong behind a legendary king, Khun Borom, who rode "a white elephant with beautiful black lips and eyelids." There was, a century later, a brief foray at empire. King Fah Ngum, born with a set of 33 pointed teeth, grabbed all of present-day Laos and part of Thailand by elephant charge and labeled it all Lan Xang Horn Khao, "Land of the Million Elephants and the W'hite...
...food they do, share their homes and show them that an American is not too proud to become one of them. We would be willing to instruct the Rothschilds in basic money problems. We could show Mr. Onassis how to build tankers cheaply out of plywood, and the Aga Khan how to use the sea as a source of food. We would instruct the women how to make the most of their Diors and Balenciagas and how to develop their natural resources. With the latest American cosmetic equipment they could earn diamonds, pearls, rubies and emeralds that they could eventually...
...Burma, impudently drawing a line that gave Burma a small slice of northeastern India as part of the deal. Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector of Kashmir...
Accompanied by bright-eyed Princess Yasmin, 10, her pixyish daughter by the late Aly Khan, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 42, sailed from Manhattan for Spain to co-star with Rex Harrison in a film titled The Oldest Confession. On hand to chaperone Rita and Rex, who will be playing a married couple in the "suspense comedy," will be the film's producer, James Hill, who happens to be Rita's fifth and current husband...