Word: khalil
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...from the street by a corrugated iron door and guarded by a somnolent sentry, an intelligent, tough and tenacious Sudanese politician sat on the edge of a sagging couch, downed numberless cups of coffee as he conferred busily with a steady flow of visitors. His Excellency Sayed Abdullah Khalil wants to win next month's election for his Umma (Nation) Party and keep the post he now holds: Prime Minister of the Sudan...
Split at Midriff. Khalil is a soldier turned politician. A onetime brigadier in the Sudan Defense Force under the British, he fought at Gallipoli in World War I, in the western desert and Italy in World War II. As a politician, he presides over a constituency that is one of the world's most complex. The Sudan is nearly four times as large (967,500 sq.mi.) as Texas, has a population (10.2 million) less than that of the New York metropolitan area. From Wadi Haifa, astride the Nile at the Egyptian border, the Sudan stretches south 1,250 miles...
...Bethlehem. About 100 yards from the Church of the Nativity, where Jesus is supposed to have been born, they disappear into a cobbler's shop. There in his single tiny room, surrounded by wooden lasts and shoemaker's tools (including a Singer sewing machine), sits Khalil Iskander Shahin, a seam-faced...
...abolish this system, keep all the manuscripts in the country but still get the money, either for the Bedouins or for itself. While negotiations are going on, scholars of the Scrollery suffer from a recurrent nightmare: that the Bedouins may stop bringing their finds to the cobbler shop of Khalil Iskander, and take them to a black market instead (no more than three or four small fragments have so far turned up for private sale by antique dealers around the world...
...iron gates of Teheran prison opened one chilly afternoon last week and out stepped a killer, bearded fanatic Khalil Tahmassebi. Nearly two years ago he murdered Ali Razmara, Iran's ablest postwar Premier, and thus started Iran down its unhappy trail. Last week Tahmassebi was a free man, pardoned by Mossadegh's subservient Majlis and captive Shah. The young assassin promptly rushed to the Hazrat Abdolazim shrine, wept joyously and said: "When I killed Razmara, I was sure that his people would kill...