Word: fervors
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...political or religious group can be completely ruled out. He was despised as a traitor by Arab nationalist radicals at home as well as those in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere. He was hated by Islamic fundamentalists both inside and outside Egypt, and their numbers, like their fervor, are on the increase. He was at odds with some of his country's Coptic Christians. He had quarreled with the Soviet Union for nine years and only last month expelled the Soviet ambassador. At that time he also ordered the arrest of 1,600 Egyptian dissidents of all kinds, including...
Shenouda's confrontational activities coincided with a marked increase in Islamic fervor and militancy among the country's Muslims, and in the wake of the violent incidents this spring and summer, some Copts began to fear for their physical safety. As Matta puts it: "All of us are in this dilemma, [because] Muslims feel Shenouda is a threat to Islam and the Koran. He was working against the line of the government and moderate Muslims." Most Copts feel that Shenouda's ouster is a tolerable price to pay for communal peace...
Flirting with big business carries its share of dangers; much worse, though, is the flirtation with Armageddon that underlines Tsongas's chapter on Russia. On the one hand he paints a picture of the Soviet Union, driven equally by ideological fervor and internal stress, as world conqueror. "Most believe that the Soviets would, as Khruschev claimed, 'bury us' if they were provided with a clear opportunity to do so. They are basically correct." America, by contrast, "is not expansionist today, and we seek no dominance, only stability." (When Tsongas first ran for public office we were embroiled in the Vietnam...
...gallabiya-that is, until the robes were forbidden by President Sadat last week. Devout young Muslims also favor trim beards, which some men were hastily shaving to escape detection in the roundup of religious dissidents. By adopting these modes of traditional attire, young Egyptians are manifesting a new Islamic fervor that is symptomatic of the opposition to Sadat's secular, pro-Western regime...
Wanniski became Laffer's most avid apostle and spread the gospel of tax cutting with all the fervor of a circuit-riding preacher. An important early convert was Jack Kemp, a New York Congressman and former quarterback with the Buffalo Bills. In 1977 Kemp, together with Senator William Roth Jr. of Delaware, introduced a bill in Congress to reduce personal income taxes by almost 33% over three years...