Word: zafrulla
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Brain on Ice. If other diplomats shivered at the prospect of another shoe-thumping tantrum, the Assembly's new president, Pakistan's spade-bearded Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, 69, showed last week that he was not about to take any guff. Told by the Russians that the General Committee, of which he is chairman, was "debasing its dignity," Zafrulla Khan retorted coolly: "The committee is the guardian of its own dignity and well able to take care...
...meticulous jurist and diplomat, whose favorite description of himself is "a brain on ice," Zafrulla has always been, in an era of revolution and extremism, an advocate of moderate policies. Unfailingly courteous, even in the most heated debates, he disdains flamboyant and vituperative oratory in favor of low-keyed logical argument, has often clashed in the U.N. with his archfoe, India's leading warlock, V. K. Krishna Menon. Though Zafrulla was an early champion of Indian independence, he never became a crusader or an inmate of political prisons like Nehru, preferred instead to work for an evolutionary agreement with...
...Zafrulla is a deeply committed antiCommunist, has privately often chided the U.S. for lavishing more attention and money on vacillating neutrals than on such strong supporters as his own Pakistan. A devoted Moslem, he neither smokes nor drinks. Once divorced, he is presently married to a 24-year-old Palestinian Arab beauty, who is now at a finishing school in London. As he took the presidential chair last week, Zafrulla recognized the strains of his post. "0 Allah," he prayed aloud in Arabic, "expand my chest. Make my task easy. Grant me eloquence so that they may understand...