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Baldwin has understanding but little sympathy for the Black Muslim movement (TIME, Aug. 10, 1959) and its mystical leaders, who contend that "Allah" will wreak vengeance on the "white devil." Visiting the Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, Baldwin found himself wanting to defend his white friends. "I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when they are trying to prove that Negroes are not subhuman." When he left, he felt that he and Elijah "would always be strangers, and possibly, one day, enemies." The Muslim, fantasy of achieving power disturbed Baldwin...
...Saudi Arabia's feudal regime. "We are discouraging unnecessary luxury and wast," said Prince Feisal last week in his Red Palace in the capital city of Riyadh. "We have stopped playing with money. We are now devoting all our resources to vital and beneficial projects and, thanks to Allah, we have great resources: nearly 50 billion barrels in proven oil reserves and $400 million in yearly revenues...
...Pakistan. A devoted Moslem, he neither smokes nor drinks. Once divorced, he is presently married to a 24-year-old Palestinian Arab beauty, who is now at a finishing school in London. As he took the presidential chair last week, Zafrulla recognized the strains of his post. "0 Allah," he prayed aloud in Arabic, "expand my chest. Make my task easy. Grant me eloquence so that they may understand...
Died. Annaser Ledin Allah Ahmad, 66th Imam of Yemen, 71, revered as "The Big Turban" among his 5,000,000 subjects in Islam's most feudal state, a cunning caliph who for 13 years managed to hang onto his throne, his air-conditioned Cadillacs, and his 40-woman harem by beheading his foes (among the victims: five of his brothers) and by firmly resisting all thoughts of leading Yemen out of the Arabian night; in his palace...
...share in his resurrection and live happily ever after. Judging by the drawings found in pyramids, the Egyptian vision of Osiris' kingdom was as sensuous as Mohammed's fleshly dream of a Paradise filled with soft-eyed houris, serving exquisite wines to the eminently deserving servants of Allah...