Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Khartoum (1966). Cinerama spectacle of the 1884 Moslem siege of the British-held fortress at Khartoum...
Tents Folded. The architect of the effort to build a new Afghanistan is King Mohammed Zahir Shah, 54, a European-educated Moslem monarch who for years spent much of his time hunting and golfing. But in 1955, 22 years after he came to power, Zahir Shah decreed the beginning of formal economic planning and began to move his 15 million subjects on the road to democracy. He ruled that the chadri, a tentlike garment that makes women look like ambulatory potato sacks, need no longer be compulsory garb. In 1964, he promulgated a new constitution that in the long...
Married. Crown Prince Hassan ibn Talal of Jordan, 20, youngest brother of King Hussein; and Princess Sarvath, 21, daughter of Pakistan's late commissioner to Great Britain; in a Moslem ceremony; in Karachi. Among the 100 guests were Hussein and Pakistani President Ayub Khan...
...overcome the ethnic facts that have split Nigeria?as distinctly as the steady current of the K-shaped river system that forms its skeleton?into three separate regions. To the north, living on flat grassland that backs up to Sahara sands, dwell the Hausa and Fulani, haughty, devout Moslem peoples governed locally by feudal emirs. The Western Region is the home of the Yoruba, a tribe known for its profusion of gods (more than 400) and its joie de vivre. To the east, where they are now trapped, the ambitious and clever Ibo people thrived. Brought forcibly together under colonial...
...LIFE correspondents, and have culled memorable pictures from TIME and LIFE files. Some of the reports remain lodged in memory. There is, for example, Photographer David Douglas Duncan's report of how a howling mob of Hindus and Sikhs in Delhi flailed to death a six-year-old Moslem girl carrying her baby brother; TIME Correspondent James Bell's terse account of weary American troops fighting for No Name Ridge in Korea; Photographer Andrew St. George's file on a Castro patrol's foolhardy attempt to blow up an armored car with a crude bomb...