Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within hours of his capture, word raced through the Casbah that Yacef was "singing." Six of his top lieutenants were rounded up by the French police, and whirring helicopters blanketed the native quarters with leaflets proclaiming that Yacef now conceded that he had misled his fellow Moslems by urging them to revolt. His capture was a serious blow to the Algerian rebels. Anxious to show that it was not a fatal one, Moslem terrorists slipped into the heart of Constantine, third biggest (pop. 118,000) of Algeria's cities, and for 20 minutes sprayed shop fronts, office windows...
...behind Turkey's southeastern border to invade Syria. It said that the U.S. has loosed 4,000 agents in the Middle East to destroy Arab nationalism. It reported that a U.S. diplomat in New Delhi tried to steal the Taj Mahal jewels in hopes of inciting a Hindu-Moslem race riot. The newspaper Al Kahira characterized the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles as "a sadist," and Al Gum-huria called him a "madman...
...They may not be aware of the hue and cry abroad at the way Ghana's government has been trampling on civil rights (TIME, Sept. 30), but Nkrumah is. Last week he tactfully gave ground. A lawyer down from London was allowed to challenge the expulsion of two Moslem opposition leaders. Contempt-of-court charges against a British newspaperman were dropped. Nkrumah pleaded for international sympathy: "Do not apply to us standards of conduct and efficiency which are often not attained in your own countries...
...dark-eyed, black-haired bachelor king's search for a wife and Queen was further circumscribed by the requirement that she be of noble birth and a devout Moslem. An early attempt to announce his troth-to a five-year-old daughter of Egypt's King Farouk-was abandoned almost as soon as it was considered; the latest attempt to marry him to a daughter of Morocco's King Mohammed V was given up last winter. Reasons: her Moroccan Arabic was almost incomprehensible to an Iraqi, and besides, she was no blonde. This summer 22-year...
Died. Hadj Mohammed el Mokri, chubby, white-bearded centenarian (estimated Moslem age: 116), Grand Vizier (Premier) to the last five Sultans of Morocco, dishonored and disfortuned for serving the wrong boss (i.e., France) in his country's successful struggle for independence; in Rabat, Morocco...