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...dance to booming rap music that pours out of the open hatchback of a silver Renault 5 with a U.S. flag painted on its rear window. Yet even this simple celebration brings a reminder of the tension between tradition and change that is testing Kuwait. Passing the scene, a fundamentalist youth mutters, "Islam doesn't need discotheques...
...Bush Administration is considering rewarding the Iranian government for its gulf war neutrality by allowing the export of U.S. satellite technology to the fundamentalist regime. Iran wants to build a $13 billion domestic communications system and aims to buy American hardware and engineering experience. Many European firms have already made bids for satellite contracts, but the Iranians extended the deadline in the hope that U.S.-based companies would be allowed to enter the fray...
...fundamentalist," declared Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif last week, but that did not stop him from introducing broad legislation to make strict Islamic law, or Shari'a, the "supreme law of Pakistan." Addressing a joint session of Pakistan's Senate and National Assembly, Nawaz Sharif outlined a legislative package that includes changes in the education and judicial systems and the restructuring of the economy along Islamic lines. The proposed legislation fulfills Nawaz Sharif's election promise to the small but powerful Islamic parties that helped him defeat Benazir Bhutto last October...
...Fundamentalist groups have reacted with cautious approval, but opponents of the bill, including educated women and lawyers, charge that it would pave the way for a militant and repressive Muslim theocracy, confine women to their homes and bring the media and the educational system under the control of Islamic clerics. The worst-case interpretation of Shari'a also favors the banning of music, dance and cinema, and the mandatory wearing of veils by women in public...
...indication that the Kurds are coordinating military tactics with the insurrectionists in the south, both Kurdish and Shi'ite groups belong to the Joint Action Committee formed by Iraqi opposition organizations in December. Still, the ambitions of the Kurds, who are Sunnis, and the Shi'ites, who want a fundamentalist government in Baghdad, are hopelessly in conflict. Last week Talabani said bluntly, "There will not be an Islamic regime in Iraq." Meanwhile, the Shi'ites suspect that in victory Kurdistan would bolt from the republic at the first opportunity. Outsiders are equally skeptical that the Kurds would settle for autonomy...