Word: mufti
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...seemed to notice-or care about -the details of Park's constitutional document. Fact was, it would permit the soldiers of the military junta to exchange their khaki uniforms for mufti, and continue ruling as before. Contemptuous of the "parliamentary impotence'' of civilian politicians. General Park reduced the National Assembly to the role of a powerless rubber stamp. Full powers were given to the popularly elected President. Leading candidate for that office, and almost certain winner in elections next March, is General Park himself...
...importance goes well beyond the spiritual. President Kennedy, who is seldom seen publicly with U.S. Catholic bishops, will receive him at the White House. At home in Lebanon, Meouchi is frequently consulted by Lebanon's Prime Minister Rashid Karame, a Moslem.* Both Lebanon's Grand Mufti and Jordan's King Hussein are good friends and correspondents of Meouchi's, and Syria's President Nazem El-Koudsi phones him often from Damascus. No Middle Eastern statesman of any faith would think of visiting Lebanon without stopping in at his yellow stone palace at Bkerki, near Beirut...
...Army aircraft going through their paces and confer with members of a special Army panel that is taking a new, hard look at the problem of moving troops fast in battle. Among the men with stars on their shoulders and scrambled eggs on their hats flew young men in mufti whose schooling in warfare took place not on the beachheads of Normandy or Inchon but on the blackboards of universities and Government-contract think factories. The men in mufti exert a powerful and controversial influence in the Pentagon these days-and they often have more to say about cold...
...main drag, bright yellow, white, red, blue and green neon signs festoon the dirty façades of grubby joints. In front of each stands a swarthy doorman, generally wearing baggy dark pants and a soiled red coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila, gin and vodka of local manufacture, adulterated whisky, and tiny bottles of beer that...
...obviously less unnerving than confronting a public audience. During his 30 years in the U.S. Army, Walker had often proved himself a cool and courageous combat soldier. But last week, making his first public speech since his Nov. 4 resignation from the Army, he seemed a misfit in mufti. Before a crowd of 5,600 gathered to celebrate "Texans Welcome General Walker Day" in Dallas Memorial Auditorium, Walker was visibly nervous, with shaking hands and a real facility for misreading passages from his 90-minute speech...