Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Moslem Prime Minister Nazimuddin cautiously blamed the Ahraris for the rioting. This was strong stuff in a nation founded on religion. When the Ahraris failed to protest. Nazimuddin boldly lashed out, accused them of having opposed the formation of Pakistan. The Ahraris stayed silent...
...After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would return to Cairo, where she could file for divorce. (Moslem wives may shed husbands by petitioning the Sharia, the Moslem personal court, for divorce on one of four grounds: infidelity, mistreatment, desertion or impotence.) Naguib had issued her an ordinary passport after a cabled personal appeal from Mme. Sadek, asking him to "help two lonely ladies in a foreign country...
Lyons: Not necessarily . . . We deal with areas of the world that are largely Buddhist, Moslem, Hindu and so forth...
Bearded priests of the Russian Orthodox Church and the clergy of Moscow's few "outside" churches-Roman Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Moslem and Buddhist -called special services to pray for the man who boasted of his atheism. The rabbis of Russia summoned their worshipers to bless the man who had so recently set in motion the scourge of antiSemitism...
...appointing as Deputy Minister of War Marshal Zhukov, Russia's greatest military hero of World War II. Finally. Malenkov took pains to hand out plums to national minorities, e.g., a comrade from Azerbaijan was made an alternate member of the Party Presidium, the first time that a Moslem has gotten a top political job in Russia...