Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, from the paddies and cluttered villages of East Pakistan (pop: 42 million), came a stunning vote of no confidence in young (45), pro-American Prime Minister Mohammed Ali and his Moslem League government. In elections for the Legislative Assembly of East Pakistan, which is divided from West Pakistan and Karachi by 1,000 miles of India, the local Moslem Leaguers were swept out of power. The league won only some 3% of the available constituencies. The league's principal opposition, a "United Front" of Moslem splinter parties and assorted left-wingers, won about...
...hopes to erase some of the bitterness left by the Nazi occupation and to convince Greece that West Germany can be a good partner. In Turkey, where Germans are popular, he expects to cement a "long-term partnership" that will help German salesmen-and eventually German diplomats-in the Moslem world...
...workroom by the Nile, had miscalculated the country's temper. He had underestimated the popular appeal of General Mohammed Naguib, overestimated the unity of the officers' corps (which turned out to be honeycombed with fellow travelers), misjudged the troublemaking .capacity of the supposedly cowed Wafdist politicians and Moslem Brotherhood. To bring the shaken-up Revolutionary regime back into the confidence of the people, political salesmanship was called...
Martyrs' Blood. It seemed to be all over. But the quarreling in public had for the first time destroyed the regime's untouchability. Now, on the fourth day of the crisis, discredited Wafdists, Moslem Brothers and Communists mingled with the mobs. Soon the streets' mood changed. The omnipresent cheerleaders who before had yelled for "Habib el Shaab" (People's Beloved) added a new cry: "Down with the rule of the twelve." The crowd formed into a mob that surged across the Kasr el Nil bridge, passed the plush Semiramis Hotel and headed for stately Garden City...
...Moslem Brothers dipped their handkerchiefs into the martyrs' blood, held their Korans aloft and led a mob of 50,000 in Abdin Square, under Naguib's office balcony. A brotherhood chieftain climbed atop a jeep, screaming that beloved Naguib must free all the prisoners and oust the military from the government. Naguib, appearing on the balcony, ignored the agitators and told the crowd: ''I owe you my life. Everything will go in the right direction." The mob responded by dispersing. As a gesture to the evident public dissatisfaction with the behind-the-scenes rule...