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...Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators of the Dam. When, in 1953, a black-bordered box in Egyptian newspapers reported that a hyperthyroid condition endangered her voice, no doctor in the Middle East dared to treat her for fear of damaging "Allah's treasure." At the invitation of the U.S. Government, she was treated successfully with isotopes at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center...
...Bombay last week, prayer was on every lip. Hindus chanted ancient Sanskrit devotions. Moslems turned toward Mecca and sought Allah's mercy. Fire-worshiping Parsis invoked Zoroaster. For 30 minutes one day, even the frenzied babble of Bombay's stock exchange subsided into a quiet whisper of prayers. All were looking to the heavens for the same thing: rain...
...call elections to decide whether he remained President for life, or President at all, but said it had no right to unseat him by itself. "For almost 40 years I have dedicated myself to the service of freedom," said the Bung, clutching the microphone stand. "I continue praying to Allah to be given the strength to continue serving the nation...
Across the country, new hospitals, schools, housing projects and factories are sprouting up on the hot horizon. In the privacy of their homes, many Saudis no longer fear that drinking, dancing or a little poker will bring down the wrath of Allah-or the government. Out in the desert, the country's ever-wandering Bedouins, who comprise 80% of Saudi Arabia's 3,500,000 people, are swapping their camels for Land Rovers and pickup trucks, and-thanks to a government well-drilling program that guarantees them water-are abandoning their nomadic ways and settling into community life...
...escaped death five times (falling off a cliff, a severe case of typhoid, a plane crash, two assassination attempts), and the experiences have brought Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi a good deal closer to Allah, says a friend. In any case, the Shah does not like Gamal Abdel Nasser's frequent attacks calling him an infidel. So to emphasize his pride in being a good Moslem, the Iranian ruler ordered the printing of a new edition of the Koran at his own expense ($250,000 so far). Using a previously unreproduced 16th century version by Calligrapher Ahmed Neirizi, 40 experts...