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Some Arab commentators have also recently questioned the unofficial involvement of thousands of Arabs in the Afghan wars. "The time has come to let Afghanistan be," wrote Shafik Nazim al-Ghabra in the Kuwaiti daily al-Ra'i al-Aam on Nov. 23. "The time has come to stop exporting the Arab world's problems to neighboring societies." That paper has been critical of the Taliban from the start, but al-Ghabra's article was particularly bitter. Other Muslim journalists have written articles in the past few weeks about the misinterpretations of the Koran that led some of those Arabs...
Members of the American Agriculture Movement, which sponsored a tractor drive-in to Washington last year to protest low farm prices, demonstrated in front of Government agriculture offices in more than half of Oklahoma's 77 counties. In Sharon Springs, Kans., angry AAM members mounted their tractors and surrounded the office of the U.S. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Protest Leader Paul Wilson accused the Government of betrayal. Said he: "We planted fence post to fence post like they wanted, and now this is what happens." Said Wheat Farmer Lysle Davidson Jr. of Johnson City, Kans.; "We think of ourselves...
Possibly the most tired of all was Bazargan, but the 71-year-old Prime Minister showed little sign of exhaustion as he hosted a huge bar-e-aam (public reception) at Tehran's modern concrete-and-steel sports arena to mark the new year. In a simple, direct talk, Bazargan touched on some of the issues facing his government. He assured the crowd of 10,000 that the rights of all the people of Iran, including women and religious minorities, will be preserved in the new constitution for an Islamic republic. But he also said that neither...
...making one stand for the most frequently used letter E, and two stand for A, etc.-and then by cheating just a bit-he got the words: Elesennrela Ledelleemn Aam-leetedeeasen. After some more hocuspocus, he changed this to read: Elesennre Laede Wedge Eere Aamleet Edeeasen-which he was sure meant "Elsinore laid wedge first Hamlet edition...
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