Word: musa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government called in troops. In Peshawar,* students, shouting antigovernment slogans, broke into the U.S. Information Service offices and ransacked them, then pelted trains and buses with rocks. Even veiled women participated in some of the protests-a rare act in conservative Moslem Pakistan. The governor of West Pakistan, Mohammed Musa, appealed three times in two weeks over nation wide radio for an end to the disturbances-in vain...
Also high on her list of priorities is the implementation of the Tashkent agreement, which she praised last week as "a good agreement" and one "I will abide by." She was already making impressive progress. Last week Pakistan's Army Commander Mohammed Musa flew into Delhi for talks with his Indian opposite number about a mutual withdrawal from the war front. At week's end the two sides even began exchanging prisoners...
...nationwide broadcast. In a voice quavering with emotion, Ayub declared that "the Indian rulers were never reconciled to the establishment of an independent Pakistan where Moslems could build a homeland of their own. For 18 years they have been arming to crush us." The present Pakistani commander, General Mohammed Musa, also took to the radio to praise the courage of his troops. The army had got its teeth in the enemy, said Musa, and should "bite deeper and deeper until he is destroyed. And destroy him you will, God willing...
...hour-long parades, and displayed a keen group sense of humor in a thousand hilarious ways, including occasionally entangling innocent natives in loops of invisible thread. They wore red fezzes, red and green floppy harem trousers, and embroidered jackets, and looked like wandering extras from The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. They were the respectable and respected members of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North America.In other words, Shriners...
...designed to hold an entire flood, only to check its water and divert it into a system of guide walls and a tunnel one-quarter mile long cut through a sandstone ridge. The water was finally discharged into the comparatively broad Wadi Mataha and Wadi Musa (Valley of Moses), where it would do no damage...