Word: khans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same day that he released Sheik Mujibur Rahman and saw him off to London, Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto-in a supreme irony -ordered the house arrest of his predecessor, Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, the man who imprisoned Mujib in the first place...
Latest additions to the annual January infestation of lists include the traditional couturier-cum-socialite choice of Best-Dressed Women (No. 1: the Begum Ago Khan, No. 2: Mrs. Ronald Reagan); Fashion Designer Mr. Blackwell's Worst-Dressed women (No. 1: Actress AM MacGraw, No. 2: Jacqueline Onassis); the Motion Picture Herald's poll for 1971 Box Office Star (No. 1: John Wayne, No. 2: Clint Eastwood); Dr. Joyce Brothers' radio poll for Most Sex-Appealing Men (No. 1: Vice President Spiro T. Agrtew, No. 2: Actor Paul Newman); and the Fashion Foundation of America...
Side One contains an introduction to the concert by Harrison and a sitar and sarod duet by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, a meeting of the superstars of the East as Shankar and Khan rarely appear on stage together. Shankar and Khan faced a Western audience that managed to commit the faux pas of clapping after the musicians finished tuning, thinking that they had finished playing a song, but they managed to sound not too upset and rendered a beautiful performance...
...INDIRA GANDHI. I'm prepared to visit not only Peking and Moscow but Washington as well. If she invites me to New Delhi beforehand, I'm prepared to go there first. I'm not calling her "that woman" [as Bhutto's predecessor Yahya Khan did]. She is the Prime Minister of a neighboring great state. My family has had three generations of contacts with her family. I have had dealings with Mrs. Gandhi, and I hope our children won't be enemies. We don't want...
...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...