Word: khans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital city of Baltit. From now on, though, they will be ruled by bureaucrats from Islamabad. Last week the Pakistan government, which already had taken responsibility for Hunza's external affairs, communications and defense, formally absorbed the ancient feudal principality without violence. The 40th Mir, one Mohammed Janal Khan, was put out of office and on a pension...
...said that they must agree to remember the hole in the floor, through which they could now see a great red pizza being quartered with a knife that, as Kafka observed, was surely a gift of the Khan to Marco Polo, as each of them over the years would tend to doubt his sanity remembering...
RAYMOND ARON, French historian: If you want to name a great conqueror, Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. If you want a legitimate king who was at the same time a statesman and a military commander, Frederick II of Prussia...
...commissioned by Democratic politicians for private use; his clients included Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. The high-priced pulse taker never tried to equivocate when bearing bad news. "There is no point to the work," he once said, "if you're not telling the truth." · Died. Mohammed Ayub Khan, 66, imposing, soldierly former President of Pakistan; of a heart attack; in Islamabad, Pakistan. Trained at Britain's Sandhurst Royal Military College, Ayub rose to commander in chief of the Pakistani army and became president in 1958. He helped spur Pakistan's economic growth but did little...
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...