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...republican Consultative Council last December in protest against Sallal's "failure to fulfill the people's aspirations," that is, his failure to negotiate instead of fight. Two Deputy Premiers had joined Noman in resigning, and one of them, Mohammed Zubeiri, had founded a group called Allah's Party as a third force to unite royalists and republicans. The premiership would probably have gone to Zubeiri, except that he was assassinated last month by "persons unknown...
...cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...
...year-old monarch still has the wholehearted support of the countryside. After all, Hassan is the deified leader of a deeply religious nationalism, and nearly 75% of all Moroccans are country folk who revere both royalty and Allah. Confident of rural support, Hassan last week dropped earlier government charges that the riots had been provoked by "foreign agitators" (translated Ahmed ben Bella) and in a radio broadcast couched in peasant Arabic, focused the blame on "three disappointed elements" in Moroccan society: the students, the unemployed and the "malcontents." He announced no spectacular solution for Morocco's plight, only demanded...
From DC-3 to Concorde. Middle East can also boast of being the world's only airline to be run by an honest-to-Allah sheik. The man responsible for the line's rapid and unsubsidized climb is Najib Salim Alamuddin, 55, who inherited the title of sheik from a family long prominent in Lebanon's Druze sect, an Islamic offshoot founded in the llth century. Educated at the American University of Beirut, suave, sophisticated Sheik Alamuddin was running his own telecommunications company when he was asked to take over Middle East Airlines...
...channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood: "It's like white horses." Even Khrushchev took time out from his attacks on the Western imperialists and said in awe: "This river is alive." As fire works exploded all around, the Arab crowds shouted: "Allah akhbar [God is great...