Word: mufti
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Back at West Point for the first visit in 14 years, former Superintendent Douglas MacArthur, in well-tailored mufti, glowed with fatherly pride as young Arthur was presented with a cadet's dress cap. After the ceremony, they watched a sadly depleted Army team lose its first game of the season to Villanova...
...this frame of mind, they are easy victims of the West's worst enemies in the Middle East: Jerusalem's scheming Grand Mufti and the Communists. For some time the Reds and the Muftimen have been working together, each side thinking it could use the other's propaganda talents. The Mufti's influence was generally considered stronger (most Arabs deeply distrust Communism because of its atheistic teachings). But recently the Communists have scared the Mufti-and startled Western observers-with a surprising show of strength...
Secret Deal.'For some time, the Mufti's representatives had been engaged in secret negotiations with U.N. Relief Boss John Blandford, a former high-bracket Washington bureaucrat. The Mufti agreed to Blandford's proposal that the refugees be moved into Syria and resettled there. The Communists got wind of this and passed the word along to the refugees, charging that the Mufti was selling them out. A fortnight ago, despite protests from Mufti agents, they called a demonstration at Ein El Helwi camp on the Israeli border...
Swift Reversal. Last week, suddenly aware that the Communists were gaining followers at his expense, the Mufti swiftly reversed ground. His smart propagandist, Emile el Hourey, a Lebanese Christian, dashed back from vacation, had the Mufti cable all Lebanon camps denying that he had agreed to their transfer...
...half a platoon of armed legionnaires; barbed wire masked the entrance to his office; squads with Tommy guns convoyed his car. For still at large were the masterminds: Abdullah el Tel, former Arab Legion colonel (sentenced to death in absentia for the Abdullah killing), and Jerusalem's Mufti, the greatest plotter of them...