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There must be times when Cassius Clay wonders what in the name of Allah has happened to him. Just yesterday he was "the Greatest," a carefree teenager who chattered amusingly about winning the heavyweight championship of the world and driving around in a tomato-red Cadillac. Now he is 24, divorced, in Dutch with the draft, condemned by Congressmen. He is the "champion of the world," but it is a smallish world: eleven states, the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Brotherhood of Black Muslims...
...saint." Sinners had it not: they complained and lamented. The Jews waited as patiently as they could for the Messiah and the Lord's Kingdom that would right all earthly wrongs. The Moslems told one another that patience was "the key to Paradise" and "a gift that Allah gives only to those he loves." Patience, in short, was the core of religion in a world where life was hard, society was static and hope lay in the hereafter. Patience meant resignation-a necessary quality for tillers of the soil and fishers of the sea, whose control over what happened...
...entitled to observe one day of rest a week, which means that Moslem communities close down on Friday, Jews on Saturday, Christians on Sunday-a situation that could conceivably lead to an ecumenical three-day weekend for all. In Saudi Arabia and Libya, Friday is kept strictly as Allah's day and Sunday is a normal work day; but in half-Christian Lebanon and Western-influenced Syria and Turkey, many Moslem businessmen close down on Friday only long enough to visit their mosques, although they shut down completely on Sunday. Jordan's government offices in Amman close...
...Allah laughed when he created the Sudan," goes one Arab proverb. "Allah wept when he created the Sudan," goes another. Versions differ almost as diametrically about just what is going on today in the three swampy, southernmost provinces of Africa's largest country. For the past six. months, the region has been the scene of bloody uprisings among its 4,000,000 Negro tribesmen against their Arab rulers from the North. The Sudan's Prime Minister, moderate Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, announced in Khartoum last week that "the situation is much improved. The rebels will be crushed...
Whether Clay's victory were the result of a fix, of Walcott's utter ineptitude, of the winds of fate, or of Clay's prayers to Allah, I don't know. The only result of the fight not wrapped in enigmas is the obvious fact that boxing may have suffered a fatal blow last night...