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...still patrol the streets outside. At prayer time these committees roam the cities and towns, ordering shops to close. Not long ago, the committees campaigned against young men who had adopted the infidel habit of letting their hair grow long. The drive backfired when a committee caught a tough Bedouin whose tribe had worn long hair for centuries. The tribesman fought back and was stabbed to death in the fight; the leader of the committee was tried, convicted and beheaded. The committees will publicly flog anyone found drinking alcohol in public. But respect for privacy is so great in Saudi...
...Bedouin warriors armed with rifles and curved daggers stood guard...
...Whatever they may say in Tripoli," reported TIME Correspondent William Stewart, "the mood in Cairo is still upbeat. Last week Sadat told a visiting delegation of 50 Bedouin chiefs from Sinai that during next year's Feast of Sacrifice, "we shall pray together in the heart of Sinai-there will be no more defeats, no going back. I shall pursue this call for peace.' (During this year's feast, Sadat prayed at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque.) Sadat's office is inundated with pledges of support from around the country. In the streets of Cairo...
...written, most scholars agree, by the Essenes, a mysterious, ascetic Jewish sect that was wiped out by the Romans about A.D. 70. The scrolls, slightly older than the New Testament, were hidden in some caves at Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. They were discovered by Bedouin and sold piecemeal, beginning in 1947. Yadin's father, also an archaeologist, did the initial analysis on the first three...
Gaddafi seems not quite sure how long his xenophobic regime can last, though no members of his Revolutionary Command Council currently challenge his authority. He never leaves the country without turning over control of three key army units to members of his Bedouin family, and Libyan jails contain many political prisoners. But the Egyptians, who in the .words of one official have been actively interested in "stirring up something" against him, admit that they have had no success. Predicts a U.S. diplomat who has watched Gaddafi's theatrics from the sidelines: "Barring a freak accident...