Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious shrines. There was even a chance that Jordan and Israel, united in opposing internationalization of the Holy City, might reach an overall peace settlement. "We will shed our blood for Jerusalem," warned a Jordan spokesman. "Let the U.N. take heed." Pointedly, Abdullah was spending each Friday, the Moslem Sabbath, in the Old City. "The U.N.," he said during last week's visit, "does not seem to know the reality of the situation, We oppose the [internationalization] resolution because it is impracticable...
...Roses. Last week, in the red-and-gold pendopo (pavilion) of the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...
...teeming, primitive Kashgar the party was held up for three weeks, haggling for a caravan to take them into India. On from Kashgar, the route led 500 miles to Kargalik, through the walled, rug-making, Moslem town of Yarkand. Mutinous Chinese Nationalist troops, who had not been paid for seven months, were in possession of Yarkand, and it took Paxton's smoothest Chinese to talk his party's way through. Paxton dismissed the truck and the jeeps, and hired ten caravan men with 33 horses and a handful of camels and donkeys. A white mongrel dog named...
During the communal riots in Delhi, a Moslem restaurateur saw a fellow Moslem slaughtered in front of the shop. He went to the phone and got Nehru directly. "Wait ten minutes!" cried the Prime Minister. "I'll be right down." In ten minutes, Nehru was on the scene with truckfuls of police. From the middle of the street, bent over a map of the district, he directed the cleanup of looters...
Gone from the Northwest was the former Nationalist hope and Moslem warlord, Governor Ma Pufang of Chinghai (TIME, June 6). Burly, black-bearded Ma had been driven by superior Communist force from his capital Sining. A dispirited fugitive, he rested in a Hong Kong flat last week. But, unlike Fu and Tung, Ma was not ready to bow to Moscow. Last week he announced that he would shortly leave-by airplane on a long pilgrimage to Mecca...