Word: sheiks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering the Middle East's biggest stories, including six TIME covers, Mecklin has come to know well every Arab head of state except the Imam of Yemen and the Sheik of Kuwait. He was on close enough terms with Nasser to be chosen for the dictator's first interview, six hours long, after the Suez war. That friendship has since chilled. He was a good friend of the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq, who always greeted him with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME...
...Morocco to black Senegal. Resplendent in blue turbans, the four Moors were feted and flattered for four days straight. They seemed to have no quarrel with Mauritania's status as a semi-autonomous political entity inside French West Africa. And since they included two council ministers, a tribal sheik and the powerful Mohammed Ould Fall Oumer, Emir of Trarza and absolute ruler of 50,000 warriors, France had every reason to believe that it had won strong support for its plans to set up a central executive over the loosely linked, Frenchsponsored West African Federation. When the Mauritanians left...
Once Nehru found use for the Lion. Then the Sheik was Nehru's honored comrade in the fight against the British, and the powerful leader who could bind largely Moslem Kashmir to the new Indian nation in 1947. Abdullah became the state of Kashmir's first Premier and symbolized the ability of Moslems and Hindus to believe in one another. But as Jawaharlal Nehru, in his hardening determination to hold strategic Kashmir for India, brushed off even U.N. demands for the Kashmir plebiscite he had promised in 1947, Abdullah began talking of making his state independent...
...said, "I called a confidential meeting of the party and said that if they wanted a new leader in whom they could have unqualified trust I would be the first to welcome him. Bakshi said right away, 'Who is the man who wants to take over from you, Sheik Sahib?' and I said: 'You, Bakshi.' And Bakshi wept...
...word that the Lion of Kashmir was loose again, India's top journalists turned their backs on Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan and other visiting notables and rushed for the Vale. But for the first three days, the canny Sheik stayed put in the village of Kud among the snow-capped mountains, waiting for his followers to stir up a lion's welcome among the chilled and hungry Moslems of Srinagar. Reporters found him commanding and ramrod-straight as ever. "I am the same Sheik Abdullah," he flashed, "but I must feel the pulse of the people...