Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommendation that the famed Vale of Kashmir, strategic heart of the state, be placed under U.N. rule for a plebiscite to determine whether its population wished to join India or Pakistan. Nehru felt no qualms over Indian military occupation of parts of a state which has a 75% Moslem population. The presence of Indian troops was justified in the pandit's eyes because in 1947 the now-Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir, since stripped of his power, had called in the Indian army to put down a revolt of his Moslem subjects. Nehru blamed Kashmir's current troubles...
From her $61-a-day suite in San Francisco's plush-and-gilt Fairmont Hotel, Egypt's Queen Mother Nazli, newly dispossessed by son King Farouk because she approved her daughter's marriage to a non-Moslem, thought it over, announced: "Maybe I should...
...spite of what the Rev. Walter Bauer says, a Mason can be a Christian, Jew, Mohammedan, Moslem, etc. Any man . . . who believes in Masonry is on the right path to peace of mind and soul...
Died. Professor Thomas Whittemore, 79, Harvard archeologist who supervised the uncovering of St. Sophia's wondrous Byzantine mosaics; in Washington, D.C. The mosaics, constructed over the course of nine centuries by thousands of anonymous workmen, were plastered over by the Moslem Turks who took Constantinople in 1453 (the Koran prohibits images), remained hidden until 1932, when Whittemore began the painstaking job, still uncompleted, of removing the plaster chip by chip...
...Francisco, Moslem Princess Fathia of Egypt, 19, displeased her brother, Egypt's King Farouk, by marrying Riad Ghali, an Egyptian commoner and a Coptic Christian. Queen Mother Nazli, who has been employing the bridegroom as a political adviser, said that she approved of the marriage...