Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah of Iran has canceled his visit to the Games after the kidnaping last month of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna. But Innsbruck will still attract a powdering of such celebrities as Muhammad Ali, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Lord Snowdon. To prevent another terrorist Munich, Austrian police will enforce tight security, even at the Olympic Ball, where every fourth tuxedoed guest is likely to be a policeman...
Harvard offers Muhammad Ali the Norton Lectureship in Poetry, but Ali turns it down. "It's an insult!" he says. "Next they're gonna gimme a Wepner Lectureship...
...nominate Muhammad Ali. He is the only person I know who has done what he said he was going...
...fourth anniversary of his government, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto deliberately kept last week's celebration low-keyed. For one thing, he was well aware that former President Muhammad Ayub Khan had staged a lavish anniversary celebration in 1969, only to be forced from power three months later. For another, he recognized that he was under the strongest attack yet from his political opposition, which declared last Friday a nationwide "Black Day." The opposition's aim: to force Bhutto's resignation...
...looks like I'm gettin' ready to fight someone," Muhammad Ali mused as he stared at the 20,000 people packed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. The occasion was a battle of sorts: a benefit concert for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black middleweight boxer imprisoned since 1966 for a murder that he claims he did not commit. "You people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince...