Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan, the Ismaili Moslem sect decided to give their spiritual leader, the Ago Khan, his weight in platinum on his 75th birthday next week. Platinic worth of his approximate 240 Ibs.: $300,000-$1,900,000 less than the 243½ Ibs. in diamonds...
Wrong Buss. In Cairo, bidding farewell to his sweetheart, Moustafa Ibrahim, 16, kissed the pane of her train window, was fined $14 by a Moslem court for committing an "indecent public...
...commission, than to plot a wise and firm future course. The U.S. success in Turkey, gratifying as it is, does not give much guidance on Western policy in the Arab countries and in Iran. Turkey had passed through a drastic process of modernization which in most of the Moslem world is still to come. But the U.S. cannot wait for Kemal Atat¨urks who are not in sight...
...meeting under the U.N.'s wing, decided that the country should be a federal monarchy, drafted its constitution, and planned elections. Without argument, the assembly settled on a King-Sayid Mohammed Idris el Mahdi el Senussi, Emir of Cyrenaica, spiritual and political leader of the devout and powerful Moslem Order of the Senussiya, and in his own right the strongest personality in Libya...
...Senussi tribesmen in two wars against the Italians, now uses a converted Italian barracks near Benghazi as his palace. He trusts the West, and privately refers to the seven-nation Arab League as "an alliance of weaknesses." But recognizing Libya's kinship with the rest of the Moslem world, he plans to join the Arab League. "If anybody ever succeeds in cementing this country together," says an English veteran of Libya, "it will be the King. The cement is Islam-these people really believe and live Islam." (The first daub of cement: a royal decree establishing two capitals...