Word: nazir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sentenced to death by hanging. As of last week, this was but one of a torrent of serious accusations that were swirling around the former Prime Minister. In a separate case, four policemen confessed that in 1972 they had murdered another opposition member of the National Assembly, Dr. Nazir Ahmed, after the Prime Minister complained to aides that he was losing sleep over Nazir Ahmed's anti-Bhutto speeches...
...Hisham Nazir, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, is Minister of Planning. That makes him boss of the world's largest and most ambitious development plan: a fiveyear, $142 billion scheme to build plants, roads and housing...
Inevitably, Saudi Arabia's quickened economic pace is creating severe problems. So far, the progress of the development plan has been uneven: shortages of labor, port congestion and housing problems kept the Saudis from spending money as quickly as they would like. But Nazir is making breakthroughs. One example: a crash program to improve the ports has cut waiting time for unloading ships from 90 days last year to almost zero. Says Finance Minister Mohamed Abdel-Kheil: "The textbooks used to speak of the need for land, labor and capital, but we have to add another factor: time...