Word: mufti
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Last week, Jordan police thought they had the answer. They arrested eight men, charged them with planning the assassination. Among the subjects: an Arab-born Roman Catholic priest in Jerusalem who is a fanatical Arab nationalist; and three blood relatives of Jerusalem's intrigue-loving Mufti...
Thus the bloody trail seemed to lead, at least indirectly, to Egypt, and a brown three-story villa off Avenue Fuad in Cairo's exclusive Heliopolis suburb. There, in exile, guarded by the Egyptian police of his friend King Farouk, plus ten Palestinian toughs, sits the Mufti, the Middle East's greatest malcontent and plotter. The Mufti hated Abdullah because he had counted on Abdullah's arms to whip the Jews, whereupon the Mufti would take over all Palestine. Instead, Abdullah made peace with the Jews and personally annexed parts of Palestine to his tiny kingdom...
Last week, his greatest adversary eliminated, the Mufti schemed to wipe out his adversary's country itself. He met secretly in Cairo's Semiramis Hotel with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both oldtime opponents of Abdullah and the British. They agreed on a plan to tack Jordan on to a Greater Syria. In this way they would put a finish...
...Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion, best fighting force in the Middle East, which has consistently opposed the Mufti...
When General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower went to call on Secretary of State Dean Acheson one day last week, he wore mufti; among Washington's worried civilian functionaries he seemed no more confident, no less harried than the rest. After his talk with the Secretary of State, Eisenhower changed quickly into his working clothes-officers' pinks, Eisenhower jacket, and the five-star shoulder circlets of a General of the Army...