Word: moslem
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...streets resound to the powerful explosion of plastic bombs. Some nights there may be only three or four; once last week there were 19. When European audiences in movie houses hear the muffled roar of a distant bomb, they break into applause. The victims of the explosions are Moslem shopkeepers. Frenchmen who are considered to be liberals or Gaullists. or policemen who appear to be searching too hard for European terrorists...
...asked President Kennedy to help push Nehru toward a settlement of the Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, which is ruled by India but is heavily Moslem in population. "Work on Mr. Nehru's nerves." Ayub urged Kennedy. He argued that the Kennedy Administration had highly overrated the importance of neutral India in its allocation of aid, and that more U.S. money ought to be channeled to SEATO ally Pakistan. Nehru was overrated, too, suggested Ayub: "People think he's thinking all the time-actually, he's just in a trance...
...strike. Algeria lay eerie and still, chilling Europeans into renewed awareness of their dependence on the Moslems who served them as cooks and maids, clerks and mechanics. The French had warned that they would fire on demonstrators, but in seaboard villages flanking Algiers, the Moslems demonstrated anyway, sometimes led by uniformed jellagha. In Constantine, thousands of Moslems flung themselves against massed French troops. By strike's end, there were 14 French casualties, 88 Moslem dead...
...peace talks with Algerian nationalists fail, De Gaulle went on, he will partition Algeria, regrouping French Algerians and pro-French Moslems in the coastal cities. For both sides, the implications of partition were staggering. Even in Algiers, Moslems outnumber Europeans 400,000 to 300,000, and the city Moslems have been passionately dedicated to the F.L.N. cause. Presumably they would have to be evacuated to the Moslem area at the cost of hopelessly dislocating the industrial and commercial life of the city. The probable French area contains 74% of the country's industries, does 77% of its business...
...minute conference with Front leaders, warned that 1) the Front was heavily infiltrated by Communist students and oil workers, and 2) should his government be brought down, it would be replaced by a military dictatorship headed by tough General Teymour Bakhtiar and supported by landlords and mullahs (Moslem religious leaders). General Bakhtiar makes no secret of his willingness, should the Shah call on him, to replace Amini's reformist program with simple repression. Last week the general was Jeeping through the mountainous interior of Iran, renewing old friendships with his clansmen in the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe, who can supply...