Word: mufti
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Even when he is in mufti, his erect military bearing is obvious. And as Admiral Stansfield Turner passes military men in the CIA's spacious corridors, they often salute automatically. When he descends from his seventh-floor office in a private, key-operated elevator and steps into his sedan, the chauffeur calls him "Admiral" rather than "Director." Turner likes it that way. After 34 years in the Navy, he is all salt...
...report last month, Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, accused the military of arbitrary detention, torture, summary executions and the "disappearance" of at least 500 suspects since the coup. Amnesty charges that many of the desaparecidos were innocent citizens abducted and murdered by soldiers and police in mufti; victims' bodies have turned up "at the bottom of lakes, decomposing in rubbish heaps or blown to pieces in quarries...
Arafat opens with the 1929 Wailing Wall riots in Jerusalem which began an era of escalating violence and established the reign of terror of Hajj Amin al-Husayni, Grand Mufti (Muslim religious leader) of Jerusalem, the extremist leader who created "the Palestinian problem" by rejecting moderation and sowing intra-Arab dissension prior to the founding of Israel. The turbulent childhood of Rahman al-Qudwa (in later life Yasir Arafat) is shadowed by Palestinian fear and hostility to a growing influx of foreign Jews; it is the conflict between opposing reactions to this threat which marks young Rahman's coming...
...observer in mufti said it looked like "a college mixer on Mars." "Illusions," a fund-raising costume ball for Manhattan's Harkness Ballet Foundation, attracted 600 guests, including a walking Brillo pad, a spangled birdwoman and an elephantman with a trunk like a phallus. Among the party poppers: Actress Julie Newmar, who came barely disguised as a butterfly. "I thought it best not to be totally naked," confided Julie. "Just half-naked...
...Paul conference, for example, was largely a Burger project. The Chief Justice tirelessly appears in mufti at an array of events, from judicial conferences to American Bar Association meetings. He travels extensively (a nonsmoker, he once started a losing firefight by asking Amtrak to ban cigars on the Metroliner), sometimes going abroad, most recently as the guest of the Japanese government. "I've made the discovery that ours is not the only workable system," he has observed wryly. He has covered most of Europe, though he found that in Spain and Portugal "they don't like strangers poking...