Word: sultanate
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...only two choices: "Ask for aid from Russia and other Communist countries in the fashion of Hungary's Janos Kadar ... or, if Your Excellency still loves the Indonesian Republic, return to your constitutional position and form a new Cabinet of men like Mohammed Hatta and the Sultan of Djogjakarta, who enjoy the full confidence of the majority of the Indonesian people. It is up to Your Excellency which way you wish to take...
Back in 1860 Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ceded the Spanish a barren little coastal enclave called Ifni (see map) as a haven for Canary Islands fishermen, but the Spanish did not get around to taking it over until 1934. King Mohammed V tacitly agreed to leave Ifni to the Spaniards at the time of the 1956 declaration of independence. But Morocco, growing confident in its new nationhood, last August asked Franco to give Ifni back. The demand was part of Morocco's reassertion of its ancient claims on the Sahara region stretching from the Atlantic coast down...
Shame & Triumph. Aisha hated her two years in exile (in Corsica, and later, Madagascar). But while she was away, her star waxed ever brighter in the Moroccan firmament. Moroccan women pinned pictures of the Sultan and Aisha on their walls, slipped back and forth between French and Moroccan lines smuggling arms and revolutionary tracts beneath their flowing djellabahs. Thirteen-year-old girls signed up in clandestine cells of the Istiqlal Party. And in a Moroccan version of Lysistrata, thousands of Moroccan women denied themselves to their husbands for two years for fear of bringing into the world children born under...
When at last the French were forced to bring the family back from exile, Aisha's return was celebrated with almost as much jubilation as that of the Sultan himself. As a shrewd and progressive monarch, her father (who will visit the U.S. later this month) had planned Aisha's role from the start as a complement to his ,own political struggle. The Sultan placed his children's education in the hands of capable private French teachers. "I want you to treat my children like other children," the Sultan said. "Call the girls by their title...
...dwindling fast. Says slim, bespectacled Mrs. Bilquis Ghuffran, a social worker who discarded her veil two years ago: "Everything will be all right in a generation." Her husband agrees: "Life is not complete if one is to leave one's wife behind in a veil." In Malaya the Sultan of Pahang was ruled out of the running to be the new nation's first Paramount Ruler because of his marital didoes (TIME. Aug. 12), and across the Strait of Malacca, when Indonesia's President Sukarno took a third wife, he touched off vehement, widely publicized feminist demonstrations...