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...dependent solely upon Allah as the final judge of these actions brought about by my own conscience," Clay said in a prepared statement. In actuality, Clay's judges will be wholly sublunary. The Justice Department, for one, began legal proceedings that could result in a $10,000 fine and five years in prison. A less predictable magistrate was the World Boxing Association, which announced within hours that Clay was being stripped of the championship and that it was scheduling a world tournament to decide who should fight for his title...
After miraculously surviving an attempted assassination by machine gun two years ago, Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi said gratefully: "Allah saved my country again." It was not an idle boast. Among modern monarchs, the Shah, 47, is a pace-setting social reformer without whom Iran would long ago have turned to chaos. The trouble is that the Shah tempts Allah quite a bit. He zooms through the streets of Teheran at high speeds in his Ferrari-while police see to it that the traffic lights go green along his route. He loves to fly jets, such as Lockheed...
...made by all Arab-nation banks, most Islamic scholars still stoutly maintain that this is nothing less than the sin of usury. Others feel that even fire, death and accident insurance are precautions that should not be taken by the good Moslem with faith in the all-merciful Allah...
...soldiers did not have to do all the killing. They were soon joined by thousands of Hausa civilians, who rampaged through the city armed with stones, cutlasses, machetes, and homemade weapons of metal and broken glass. Crying "Heathen!" and "Allah!", the mobs and troops invaded the sabon gari (strangers' quarter), ransacking, looting and burning Ibo homes and stores and murdering their owners...
...refuse further payments unless the meeting were held. In the end, only Jordan rallied to Feisal's side, and the Arab League had no choice but to postpone the meeting. Undaunted, Feisal began pressing even harder for his Islamic summit next spring. "Perhaps," sighed one Saudi Cabinet member, "Allah will succeed where Arabs have failed...