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...road from Tyre turns inland at Naqura, the scenery suddenly changes from lush and crowded to barren and empty. As it wound through Dhayra, Awad Dib, a 35-year-old tobacco farmer and father of nine, could be seen doggedly rebuilding his house. One April night last spring, after the fedayeen raid on Qiryat Shemona that killed 18 Israelis (TIME, April 22), an armored column rolled into the village. "About 35 men came to my farm," he told me. "They said I helped the fedayeen. They took all the furniture in my house and piled it in one room. Then...
...letter bomb to a Beirut newspaper was disarmed. In Cairo, postal employees spotted and defused a package mailed from Belgrade. In Algiers, a package wounded the secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization office, to whom it had been addressed. In Tripoli, meanwhile, an official of the same group, Mustafa Awad Zeid, was blinded by a letter bomb that exploded as he opened...
Open criticism is being allowed again, and there have been some pointed attacks on the Pan-Arabism that flourished under Nasser and all but obliterated millenniums of Egyptian history. Wrote Literary Editor Louis Awad of Cairo's Al Ahram: "If you search in the six reading books taught from Grade 1 to Grade 6 in Egyptian schools, you do not come across the name Egypt even once. You only discover stupid poems that begin, I am an Arab. My father is Arab. My brother is Arab. Long live the Arabs.' " So pronounced is the "Egypt first" mood, that the Cairo...
...powerful socialist Baath Party charged that the government ''represents vested interests trying to stuff their own pockets." The government was determined to put Syria's plundered economy on an even keel and slow Nasser's precipitate nationalization program. But able, French-trained Economics Minister Awad Barakat said he would press forward with land redistribution, ''with certain modifications," and retain intact "social benefits instituted by the previous regime," including compulsory profit sharing in private industry...
...race. There are slave markets in all the big towns there. The slave traffic starts at sundown. The big chiefs examine us and select those they want, just like at a camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course of an investigation over the past...