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Shamoon S. Habib Irving, Texas...
...renewed interest in Islam is most pronounced among the young. A prominent judge in Algiers is surprised to discover that five times a day his 14-year-old son joins a group of friends at a mosque for prayer. In Tunisia, whose President Habib Bourguiba has promoted equal rights for women, including divorce and abortion, students belonging to the militant Muslim Brothers wage war on "sin and evil" by painting over sexually suggestive cinema billboards and chalking quotations from the Koran on city walls. At Cairo University (enrollment: 130,000), hundreds of female Egyptian students have donned the veil...
...Habib Malik...
Before making the statement public, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Philip Habib summoned Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz and handed him a draft. Dinitz read in stony silence. "The Palestinians must be involved in the peacemaking process," the document said. "Their representatives will have to be at Geneva for the Palestinian question to be solved." The statement went on to conclude that "all of the participants in the peace conference should adhere to the terms" of United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, which call for secure borders for all Middle East states...
...described as "deepening our involvement in the lives of [the occupied] areas." Washington reacted angrily. Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz was promptly summoned to the State Department; there he was deliberately shuffled off to hear a stern lecture on the "illegality" of the newly announced settlements from Under Secretary Philip Habib, rather than from Cyrus Vance, with whom Dinitz usually deals. In Jerusalem, U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis called on Begin to express the same concerns. Begin listened to the U.S. complaints, but then insisted that he had merely been carrying out some campaign pledges. That explanation may help Begin with...