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...comrades. To protect the lives of the 155 passengers, New Delhi acquiesced. And now, India believes, Azhar, 34, as head of Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), is partly responsible for the Dec. 13 attack on its Parliament by five suicidal militants. It was his arrest--and that of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, leader of the other party India blames, Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure)--that New Delhi demanded and won from Pakistan last week...
...Frontpiece from the Divan of Hafiz is a wonderful representative of the charm this exhibit exudes. A watercolor with gold (yes, actual gold on the paper), the Frontpiececonsists of two elegant rectangles filled with gold twists, whirls and royal blue coloring that chase each other around in delicately ordered chaos, so finely patterned that the magnifying glasses provided will certainly be put to good use. The Frontpieceand other works like it are too free and graceful to the called geometric. Some secret structure hides in these patterns, like the order that supports musical harmony or poetry, and it never interferes...
...some of Mandela's time in office has been spent in the acquisition of new friends of the Qaddafi-esque ilk. Perhaps even more disquieting than the largely symbolic fraternity between Qaddafi and Mandela, were last year's allegations that Mandela intended to sell chemical weapons to Syrian dictator Hafiz al-Assad. This episode was followed by a state visit by Vice President Al Gore Jr. '69 to South Africa during which Gore is reported not to have even broached the subject of the arms deal in his conversations with the South African president...
...radio, stentorian communiqués, tanks rumbling in the streets and the losers either shot or sent into exile. Last week, as rumors of yet an other upheaval continued to pour out of Damascus, the usual signs were ab sent. In fact, the supposed new strong man, Defense Minister Hafiz Assad, even showed up in public with the men he had reportedly overthrown, President Noureddine al Atassi and Baath Party Boss Salah Jadid. What had happened, it seems, was not a coup, but merely a particularly violent debate among Syria's leaders...
...foray, however, had an unexpected side effect in bringing to a head a feud within the Syrian government. In what amounted to yet another upheaval in Syria, Lieut. General Hafiz Assad, the Defense Minister, posted troops around government ministries and television studios in a show of strength against Chief of State Dr. Noureddine al Atassi and Baathist Party Boss Salah Jaid. If Assad makes his power play stick, one result could well be an end to Syria's quarrels with the rival Baath party in Iraq, and its isolation in the Arab world, which could lead to a more...