Word: feudalisms
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Eventually, Saudi Arabia and the equally feudal emirates, sheikdoms and sultanates of the gulf (Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates -- and Kuwait, if Saddam Hussein lets go) will also have to share more of their oil riches with the poorer Arab states, through investment and development aid. The bitter resentment of their wealth and isolation, fanned but not originated by Saddam Hussein, has come as a salutary shock to their rulers. Some may be realizing too that it is unhealthy for as much as 60% of their populations to be composed of foreign workers (Palestinians, Pakistanis, Egyptians, Filipinos...
...about oil, or is it about order? Those who say the gulf crisis is about oil note that U.S. military forces would not be massing to protect one distant feudal monarchy and restore another if the barren sands of Arabia had nothing underneath. Those who say it's about something finer -- re-establishing a civilized world order -- argue that we would not be going to all this trouble if the threat to our energy supply came in the traditional way: by a meeting of oil ministers in a Geneva hotel...
...Algeria, the returns affirmed President Chadli Bendjedid's commitment to the development of a multiparty democracy in a region characterized by dictatorships and feudal monarchies. For his efforts, Bendjedid is being urged by the fundamentalists to dissolve the parliament, which currently seats only members of the ruling party, and hold national elections. "Any attempt to resort to trickery," warns Said Sadi, secretary-general of the Rally for Culture and Democracy, a moderate, secular party that made a poor showing, "will inevitably finish in the streets with helmets against turbans...
Muslim cultural pressure is by no means the only cause of Christian decline, reasons for which vary country by country. Lebanon is convulsed by feudal warfare, pitting Christians against not only Muslims but, increasingly, rival Christians. Saudi Arabia has long forbidden any open Christian activity. By contrast, Islam is not the state religion in autocratic Syria and its 10% Christian minority will apparently be secure as long as Hafez Assad holds power...
...fledgling movement does not advocate the dismantling of either socialism or the Communist Party. But it has adopted a manifesto demanding that China end the one-party system, reform the economy, permit freedom of speech, release political prisoners and "liberate the mind and completely eradicate feudal vestiges" -- a reference to lifetime official tenures, nepotism and corruption in the regime...