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This time, the leading sheik answered with a shrill scream: "Oh cursed one, your time is come!", and drove his spear through Gordon's body...
...staffers were covering an Arab nationalist uprising in Tunisia in 1952, when his car was stopped by a large band of Arabs. "After many minutes of trying to convince them that we were les Americains and not Frenchmen, who were being shot at the time, the sheik called for silence, indicated he would give me the test. In complete silence he stuck his wrinkled face up to mine and said, with a look of infinite cunning, the only American word he knew: 'Okay.' I replied emphatically, 'Okay.' The sheik shouted his approval, the tribesmen clapped their...
Rawalpindi, the Pakistani suddenly freed Ghaffar Khan, along with 44 other political prisoners. Probable motive: to give a more convincing ring to Pakistan's protests against India's jailing of the deposed Sheik Abdullah of Kashmir. The Indians, who had long agitated for Ghaffar Khan's release, front-paged the good news. They got a shock when, upon leaving jail. Ghaffar Khan proved to be as independent and plain-speaking as ever. To the cheering crowds who garlanded him with flowers, he declared that Kashmir rightfully belongs to Pakistan-and that he had twice offered his services...
...news. He has been chief of the New Delhi bureau since 1951. and before that he was TIME correspondent in Peking until the Communists took news coverage into their own hands. He was one of three foreign correspondents who eyewitnessed the recent riots in Kashmir after the overthrow of Sheik Abdullah. When Mt. Everest was climbed and expedition members were on their way down to the Nepalese capital, Burke's interest in Tenzing, the expedition's now famous guide, so pleased Nepalese Embassy officials in New Delhi that they transmitted his visa application via the embassy...
King Ibn Saud claims Buraimi as part of Saudi Arabia; and Britain, as "protector" of Trucial Oman, claims it for a Trucial Oman Sheik and the Sultan of Muscat. Since the summer of 1952, the claimants had fought their siege with angry words and glowering looks. Ibn Saud sent Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan to occupy Buraimi, supposedly in answer to an appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into...