Word: yahya
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...being solved in the streets. Mobs surround any place they like and force acceptance of whatever they like. There is nobody left to raise a righteous voice." Accordingly, the President declared, there was no alternative but for the army's chief of staff, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, to assume all the powers of government...
...East Pakistanis had their way, Ayub feared, what would prevent similar demands in West Pakistan that the province be carved up into four separate states? Aware for the first time that he might lose control of his once rubber-stamp National Assembly, Ayub wrote a letter to Yahya inviting the army to move...
...group, headed by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, assistant professor of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, found the remains of Carmania near the top of a mound, known as Tepe Yahya, which they were exploring...
Lamberg-Karlovsky plans to return to Tepe Yahya with an expanded staff next summer. He intends to concentrate on the Neolithic part of the mound...
Careful Planning. Iraq was ripe for revolt. Under the regime of General Aref, who took over in 1966 after his predecessor and brother Abdul Salem Aref died in a mysterious helicopter crash, the country suffered from so much corruption that the Premier, Lieut. General Taher Yahya, was widely known as "the Thief of Baghdad." A poor administrator and weak boss, Aref bore the additional stigma of last year's defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel. He offended many citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed...