Word: mustafa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Notes on the Table. A few days before the brotherhood's 92 were sentenced, one of Nasser's courts decreed a life sentence for Cairo Publisher Mustafa Amin, 52, who was accused of passing security information to an alleged CIA agent named Bruce Taylor Odell, officially listed as a political attaché at the U.S. embassy in Cairo (TIME, Aug. 6, 1965). Nasser's government claimed that Amin, a longtime confidant of Nasser before his arrest, met Odell regularly to divulge information on such matters as Nasser's relations with his Vice President and with...
...declared that the Kurds were "our blood brothers." Aref freed five rebel leaders from house arrest and conceded two long-standing demands: a measure of local rule for Kurds, and Kurdish-language instruction in their schools. But Aref had a demand of his own. He wanted Rebel Chieftain Mullah Mustafa Barzani to disband his 15,000-man army, called pesh mergas (meaning "those willing to die for the cause"). Skeptically, Barzani refused...
...most pressing issue between the two is the Kurds-the fiercely independent tribesmen who inhabit neighboring areas of both nations. For six years, Kurds in Iraq, led by Mustafa Barzani and seeking autonomy, have been in rebellion against the Baghdad government. Last week Barzani's guerrilla war had touched off an angry border clash between Iraq and Iran...
...Cairo Publisher Mustafa Amin reported exuberantly that his nation's new revolutionary regime was the first "honest, democracy-loving government in 5,000 years of Egyptian his tory." Nasser soon proved him wrong, but for years the personable, pro-Western Amin remained close to Egypt's strongman. He was sent to Beirut on a top-secret mission to seek an end to the Suez war, served as Nasser's adviser on a trip to the U.N. In 1962, long after all Cairo papers had been nationalized, Nasser signed a decree restoring him as publisher...
...Moslem religion disestablished. The fez was outlawed, and the schools, the courts and the institution of marriage were freed from the control of the mullahs. Women won the right to vote, hold jobs, own property. Polygamy and the veil were eliminated. The alphabet was Romanized and names were Westernized-Mustafa Kemal took the opportunity to call himself Kemal Atatürk (Father of the Turks...