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...there was something malevolently different about the Zahaby case. His alleged murderers were members of an extremist Muslim sect called Jamaat al Takfir wal Hijra (the Society for Repentance and Retreat), which has blended the urban terrorist tactics of West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang with something akin to the perverted zeal of Charles Manson's spiritual slaves. The society, which believes in repentance for sin and retreat from the evils of the modern world, is far more extreme than even the archconservative, fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. The movement is bitterly opposed to the government of President Anwar Sadat...
Basques are the most adamant in demanding regional autonomy (akin to U.S. states' rights). But these sentiments are echoed in Catalonia and to a lesser degree in Galicia, Andalusia and the Canary Islands. There is widespread support for the right of these areas to make their own basic decisions on education, public works and taxes...
Most people dream that they will some day, somehow, strike it rich. They share a pleasurable and innocuous fantasy, akin to pubertal pinings or the hankering of grown men-and women-to sail around the world, learn the Hustle or inhabit the White House. The reality of American life in 1977 might appear to make daydreams of wealth more chimerical than ever in the nation's history. Indeed, in an age of brutal taxation, constricted opportunity and entangling laws, most dreamers of wealth concede that Mars or Margaux might be more attainable than megabucks...
...then 19, was the beautiful, free-spirited daughter of a British Columbia industrialist and former Canadian Cabinet member, James Sinclair. Canadians learned of the couple's ultra-private wedding ceremony in March 1971, three years after Trudeau was elected Prime Minister for the first time; the rejoicing was akin to that for a royal coronation. After Trudeau successfully fought his third national election campaign in 1974, Margaret's cool yet sprightly presence on the hustings was judged to be a significant political asset...
...Young, 45, had barely been sworn in when he said that Fidel Castro's Cuban mercenaries "bring a certain stability to Angola." That was only a warmup. There were bloopers about sending U.S. troops to Rhodesia, about Britain having almost "invented racism," about Arab attitudes toward Israelis being akin to Ku Klux Klan attitudes toward blacks. Soon the State Department found itself working almost full time to clarify, correct or apologize for Young's remarks...