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...reality of Black Islam also attests to the fact that traditional reform agencies are invested with neither the vigour nor the spiritual force demanded by contemporary black folk. To put it quite bluntly, Negroes want a revolution in racial relations, which traditional agencies are not supplying. However, the bast majority of American Negroes, bent as they are on social elevation, know themselves to be American first and Negro as a matter of colorful variation in the national mosaic. This is precisely why it is highly doubtful that the Black Muslim movement will be the vehicle of the Negroes attainment...
When an Iranian wants to be safe from the police, he reverts to an old custom called bast, or asylum. The recognized sanctuaries are Parliament buildings, mosques, the royal palace and stables, and, curiously enough, telegraph offices. As Iran last week reeled through its second national election in seven months, citizens were scampering in all directions seeking bast...
Eleven National Front politicians dodged into Teheran's modernistic, $9,000,000 Senate building. Sharing their bast was a local cook, famed for his delicious tchelo kabob (tender lamb strips, rice, raw egg, melted butter), who had brought them food and now could not leave without being arrested by the soldiers surrounding the building with fixed bayonets. Twelve thousand university students surged through the streets shouting for "free elections," until dispersed by firemen with high-pressure hoses...
...date-palmed Borazjan, workers closed down the bazaar in a strike against election irregularities. In arid Shahabad, citizens who had found bast in a telegraph office were wiring protests to the Shah. Others contemptuously voted for the Shah's three-month-old son, Crown Prince Reza. Street battles in Teheran between police and antigovernment demonstrators ended with 18 hurt and 80 arrested. The cops boldly hurled tear-gas grenades at one street-corner group and then apologized on learning that they were waiting...
...that you would have any fun with the meals eaten by even upper-class Russians. But they have plenty of healthy food-bread, meat, vegetables, even fruits and delicacies at prices which people can afford. People are much better dressed. I saw not a single pair of the crude bast sandals, visible everywhere 20 years ago. The clothes chiefly lack elegance and charm, but in most cases they are sturdy. Housing, though still bad, is better than it was. Moscow's 5,000,000 people mostly have elementary privacy, in Russian terms, i.e., not more than one family...