Word: mufti
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...retiring commander of U.S. troops in Europe, General Anthony C. ("Nuts!") McAuliffe, 57, due to wind up his 38-year military career at May's end, winged in from London to New York's International Airport. A jaunty figure in mufti, Tony McAuliffe discounted chances of all-out nuclear war but foresaw a possibility of small "brush wars" involving tactical atomic weapons. Said he: "We'd be suckers if we attempted to fight the Russians with only conventional weapons." What about McAuliffe's fellow cadet at West Point, New York-born General (ret.) Mark W. Clark...
...chief of staff for Air Intelligence when the U.S. entered World War II, became one of the Air Corps's youngest brigadier generals at 36. Because he looked even younger than he was, he had to learn to endure gibes about his age: once while in Tunisia, in mufti, he was ordered by a chicken colonel to hustle up a drink, complied gracefully...
...small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made...
...secret meeting in a classroom of the Hattingen trade-union school might have been a military briefing, except that the men wore mufti and talked of such unmilitary objectives as office keys, filing cabinets and street addresses. Intently they took instruction from an incisive young man, then hurried off in automobiles to nine cities of West Germany's industrial Ruhr. At the stroke of 8 next morning, the nine men led small groups of assistants into nine regional offices and the headquarters of the big Northrhine-Westphalia Building Workers' Union, seized the offices and the files...
...Arab-Israeli agreement on division of Jordan waters to irrigate new land for development and refugee resettlement. Eric Johnston, the U.S. negotiator, worked out an agreement that was mutually advantageous to both sides, but could never quite bring either to sign (Israel is the more cooperative). Said the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem last week: "If the Johnston plan gave 99% of the Jordan water to the Arabs and helped Israel by only so much as one gallon, I would still...