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Other articles of the draft constitution which is virtually certain to be adopted by popular referendum after the Assembly of Experts is finished scrutinizing it are intended to Islamize all aspects of social life. Article 22, for example, would make Arabic, the language of the Koran, compulsory in all secondary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Forced March Backward | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

*Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Hoagland's footsteps are hardly the first to fall on East Africa from the outside world, any more than were those of Sir Richard Burton, the demonic Victorian explorer and scholar of the forbid den who infiltrated hostile cities dressed in native robes and speaking fluent Arabic. By contrast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pink Spider | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who traveled with Pope John Paul II through Poland for this week's cover story, is no stranger to papal tours. He flew twice with Pope Paul VI and had a chat with John Paul II on the new Pontiffs trip to Mexico last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 18, 1979 | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

The Sultanate of Oman, which means "peaceful land"in Arabic, is so remote that it has often been called the Tibet of the Arabian peninsula. Nonetheless, the thinly populated desert kingdom-820,000 people -is a country about the size of Kansas and has time and again been caught up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OMAN: Emerging from the Dark Ages | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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