Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sands of North Africa, burning Moslem nationalism collided head-on with determined French colonialism. The tribesmen of Morocco slew hundreds and were slain by the hundreds in return; neither side troubled unduly to spare the innocent. The occasion for the bloodshed was local in nature but worldwide in its implications: Who should be Sultan of Morocco-a French puppet or the man the Moroccans themselves wanted as their Imam (Commander of the Faithful)? Deeper than this ran stronger currents: France's pride of empire, the Moroccans' longing for independence. In this confused situation, the nation that brought modern...
...Date Fatidique and the days following the fateful date that brought thousands of Moslem terrorists out of the hills (TIME, Aug. 29), claimed the lives of 92 Frenchmen and at least 1,000 Moroccans. But that was only a beginning; last week the Berber tribes were still on the rampage in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains that straddle central Morocco. Shouting horsemen, brandishing antique guns, swept into Khouribga, where the French own phosphate mines, joined up with the Arab miners and hacked 203 people to death. Near by, Moroccan iron workers in the town of Ait Amar dragged their...
...teeming bidonvilles, where few Frenchmen dare enter, veiled women made grenades. Their menfolk banded together in terrorist societies-the Black Crescent, Black Hand, and many others. Egged on by the mullahs and by the Voice of the Arabs, a Cairo propaganda station supported by the Egyptian government, young Moslem fanatics began bombing French stores, derailing trains and stabbing French civilians. In 1954, the long knives and homemade bombs struck down 200 Frenchmen and wounded 500 more. Encouraged by French reverses in Indo-China, the Black Hand openly boasted: "Casablanca will become another Dienbienphu...
...member Constituent Assembly, summoned to ratify the changes, met in an atmosphere of bewildered acquiescence. Looking across the elegant semicircular Assembly Hall, with its parliamentary paraphernalia of Speaker, Government and Opposition benches, one young black-bearded Moslem said: "We imitate Britain like monkeys, but where is the true democracy?" Another nervously pleaded: "Let us play the game like good cricketers. Stop the cheating and the musical chairs...
After 18 days without a government, Indonesia got a new Premier to replace Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, whose Red-supported Nationalists fell afoul of the Indonesian army. In came Burhanuddin Harahap, 38, lawyer and onetime guerrilla who headed the Masjumi bloc in Parliament, Indonesia's strongest Moslem (and antiCommunist) party. Ignoring the discredited Nationalists, Harahap patched together a coalition of twelve other parties, and will provide a caretaker regime until Sept. 29, when Indonesians go to the polls for their first national election since becoming a nation six years...