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In Cairo, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to join the kneeling crowds outside the packed mosques. At Dhahran on the Persian Gulf, the Arabian-American Oil Co. eased its daily work schedules for its fasting, prayerful employees. The Arab cafes of Algiers were empty. In Beirut and Karachi, Western-educated...
* The Arabic word Ramadan means literally, "The Scorcher."
Soon, a distinguished six-man Umma delegation headed for Cairo. In four formal meetings and nine if tars (sundown breakfasts during the fast month of Ramadan), the two sides narrowed down the issues. Said Egypt's Premier, Hilaly Pasha: if the Sudanese want self-government, they can have it...
Actually, Editor Sanders, 46, had run the branch so thriftily that she not only kept the staff at 75 (authorized: 96), but the cost of Amerika ($150,000 last year) was well below the magazine's authorized budget of $500,000. She also launched other projects, including Yugoslav and...
This week the $513 million Ford Foundation announced that it is going into the magazine business. Starting in October, the foundation will publish Perspectives U.S.A., a quarterly designed to show people outside the U.S. that "Americans can think as well as chew gum." The magazine, a pet project of the...