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...Tashkent-based Muslim board for Central Asia, the most important of the four government-imposed bureaucracies for Soviet Islam, Deputy Chairman Abdulgani Abdulla recalls that "almost nobody was interested in religion" in the 1960s. Now, he reports, large numbers are becoming active believers, many of them young people. "None of the philosophies except the religious ones are able to satisfy men's needs," he maintains. The leader of the Muslim board for Transcaucasia, Allahshukur Pasha-zada, declares that until recently "freedom of conscience was on paper only." The pre-Gorbachev regimes, he says, "destroyed all the values of the people...
...invaders left at least 30 dead, most of them civilians, and nearly 100 injured. According to Foreign Minister Fathulla Jameel, several eyewitnesses identified as the leader of the band a once prominent Maldivian businessman named Abdulla Lutefi, who currently operates a farm near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. Several years ago, Lutefi was arrested for entering Maldives with a firearm, apparently in an attempt to overthrow Ibrahim Nasir, Gayoom's predecessor as President. Both Sri Lankan and Maldivian authorities suspect that Lutefi may have hired the Tamil mercenaries, many of whom have become increasingly inactive since India sent army...
...cousin, 18-year-old Abdulla Ali Aql, also was beaten and suffered two broken arms, said the U.N. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity...
...Libyan relations hit a new low when Cairo implied that Gaddafi-a Moslem zealot who fancies himself Nasser's heir as the champion of the Islamic world-was personally linked to a plot to topple Sadat. As Egyptian officials tell it, a 38-year-old fanatic named Saleh Abdulla Sareya (a Palestinian with an Iraqi passport) led a group of youths armed only with knives in an attack against the Egyptian army's Technical Military Academy in suburban Cairo. They expected to encounter no resistance, to capture the academy's arsenal of weapons and vehicles, and then...
...army carrying pangas, bows and arrows raided two police armories. Then the rebels swept into Zanzibar Town before dawn, passing out guns to Afro-Shirazis and members of the outlawed Red Chinese-orientated Umma Party. In less than twelve hours, the Arab government of Sultan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla had fallen, its ministers were in jail, and the 34-year-old sultan himself was hurrying toward asylum in Tanganyika...