Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gamal Abdel Nasser, a handsome, dedicated soldier of only 37, is the one man in Egypt who could give such an order and have it obeyed. Last week, further curbing some of his impatient lieutenants and the Moslem hotheads who would like to provoke a full-scale war with Israel, he endorsed United Nations efforts to create a buffer zone or stretch a barrier along the border dividing Israel and Egypt at the hypersensitive Gaza strip. There is an intimate connection between Nasser and The Strip. It was there that the fuse was lit to Egypt's 1952 revolution...
...Moslem followers of Mohammed the Conqueror who triumphantly stormed Constantinople in 1453 were so successful in covering up all traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries Byzantine art-once the glory of Eastern Christendom-could be judged only through the examples that survived outside the Moslem world. Then, in 1935, Turkey's Kemal Ataturk declared Istanbul's Church of St. Sophia a historical monument, and cleared the way for Western experts to remove the plaster and paint that pious, iconoclastic Moslems had daubed over the great Christian mosaics. Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof...
Three times the size of Texas, Algeria takes in a swatch of the Sahara, two broad seams of the Atlas Mountains, and a 100-mile-wide ribbon of fertile Mediterranean littoral where most of its largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million...
...islanders, and are demanding that under home rule not only they but their children must be guaranteed government jobs. The Arabs of Tunisia maintain the highest indigenous standard of living in North Africa, with a substantial middle class, a peasantry, and the only real trade-union organization in the Moslem world (which sent a fraternal delegate to last year's C.I.O. convention...
...Prime Minister Mohammed Ali, 45, ambassador to the U.S. for 15 months in 1952-53, was reappointed to his old striped-pants post in the capital. On getting the tidings, Washington's hostesses knitted aging brows. Their problem: If Ali, recently married to a second wife under his Moslem prerogative (TIME, April 18), were to bring both his ladies to Washington, should social invitations include either, neither, or both wives? To their relief, the hostesses read at week's end that Ali had partially solved their problem. He will, according to word from Pakistan, bring...