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...Asmara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, a conference of 83 delegates from 32 church bodies met to consider relations with Islam and give forth a message "to all our brothers in Christ." Excerpts: "We call upon all the Christian churches in the Middle East to play a full part in national self-fulfillment . . . We urge the churches of the Middle East and individual Christians to recognize the points of involvement between Islamic and Christian doctrine . . . With penitence and humility we confess our need for a new spirit of respect and friendship for Moslems, through which the barriers of suspicion and fear will disappear...
...known to his fellow officers as a fatherly type. Born on the Red Sea coast, a member of the Hadendowa tribe that furnished the Fuzzy-Wuzzies immortalized by Rudyard Kipling for breaking a British square, Abboud became an army lieutenant in 1921, served with the British in Eritrea and North Africa during World War II, emerged as a colonel commanding a camel corps, and was finally named chief of staff by Premier Khalil...
...naval bases, or military advisory groups in far-flung areas. Though their programs are almost entirely old films or filmed shows from the U.S., the natives have rushed to buy sets for themselves, even when they know no English. After an armed forces transmitter went up at Asmara in Eritrea, Americans found their opposite numbers coming to them with a familiar complaint: the children were neglecting their homework and skimping meals because it was impossible to drag them away from the great grey tube...
Economists insist that, ideally, Israel could make its own way if it took its proper place in its own region, and that its manufactures can find their rightful markets in such undeveloped nearby lands as Ethiopia, Eritrea and in the Arab states themselves. But to find such trade in its own area would require a great change of heart among its hostile neighbors and a great change in its own attitude. Ben-Gurion's victory last week was an indication that Israel does not propose to make such a change itself. This was a victory over his own Cabinet...
Ethiopia, landlocked until 1952, when it got two big ports in Eritrea through federation, will soon have the start of a merchant fleet. A Dutch shipbuilding firm has orders for four seagoing tugboats...