Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal diplomacy, and his slight (5 ft. 4 in., 100 Ibs.) figure, topped by a face like a Byzantine icon, has become familiar to millions around the world. Last week he came to the U.S. to tell Lyndon Johnson about the problems of Ethiopia, a Christian country flanked by Moslems. The Somali Republic, a new (1960) Moslem nation on his eastern border, has laid claim to much of his land, and has backed up the claim with Russian arms and terrorist raids. One of Haile Selassie's principal aims in Washington was to ask President Johnson for more...
...short while ago Uganda expelled ten Catholic priests, allegedly for smuggling arms and funds to anti-Moslem rebels in neighboring Sudan. The priests claimed that they had only been aiding refugees from the fighting. In Zambia, President Kenneth Kaunda recently warned that missionaries would be tolerated only if they did not "spread subversion." Many African rulers now expect missionaries to bulwark their policies. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, for example, exhorts his country's churches to preach his own brand of social revolution...
...start mending the broken fabric of national unity with a week of mourning. For two days, the whole nation flew its flags half-mast for Ironsi. For the next three-in the North and West at least -there was mourning for ex-Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Northern Moslem who was killed when Ironsi carried off his coup a year...
Nigeria's present crisis is rooted in tribal tensions which have been maturing for decades. The most violent antagonism is between the progressive Ibos, who dominate Nigeria's Eastern Region, and the less-educated Hausas, a Moslem people from the vast and largely arid Northern Region. After World War II, the Ibos, whose Eastern home is badly overpopulated, migrated north in droves to take advantage of the opportunities offered by their underdeveloped and underpopulated neighbor. The Ibos soon dominated major northern industries and captured crucial transportation and communications jobs. The Hausas, frustrated by their inability to complete with the "foreigners...
...will happen. A cocksure young cockney, Caine likes to picture himself as a consummate cracksman and his accomplice (Shirley MacLaine) as a dumb Dora who knows just enough to keep her mouth shut. The pair arrives in the Middle East, where Caine smoothly contrives to encounter a gullible Moslem millionaire (Herbert Lom). Flabbergasted by the girl's resemblance to his late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner is absurdly pleased to toddle off with Shirley on a tour of the Arab quarter. With the coast clear...