Word: islam
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...week went by, the toll of destruction reached millions; four lives had been lost, 46 people injured, and 187 arrested. The cause, Locher and Wagner hinted persistently, lay in an organized conspiracy. Cleveland does have its Black Muslim Temple of Islam (No. 18). There was at least one representative of the pro-Castro Revolutionary Action Movement in town. A group called the J.F.K. House-for Jomo Freedom Kenyatta and John F. Kennedy-is suspected of running a Hough-headquartered training school in street warfare...
Nasser and his Arab socialist allies, however, view his campaign as an anti-Nasser, anti-left alliance. Almost nightly, Cairo radio rakes Feisal as "the bearded bigot" and the "Pope of Islam." "We hear someone who says he is pursuing the way of unity," Nasser sneered of Feisal in a speech last week in Da-manhur. "But we find he is in effect unifying reactionary forces." Feisal replies calmly to such attacks. "My task," he once said, "is with my people and my country, not with others...
Threat from Islam. Despite growing opposition to his Yemen policy at home, Nasser is not about to pull out empty-handed after 3½ years of fighting. Yemen has become a microcosm of the whole Middle East struggle between Socialist and Conservative forces-a struggle that is not going at all well for Nasser. The latest blow was Saudi Arabia's scheme for an anti-Nasser Islamic Alliance, which has rallied open support from Jordan, Tunisia and Iran, and tacit backing from Kuwait and Morocco. Nasser is also locked in a struggle with the Red Chinese, who are sharply...
...last week cashed in stamps to buy a station wagon for its nuns; the Thomas Dooley Foundation is saving for a light airplane for medical use in Laos; even Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims are collecting stamps for a school bus to be used at the University of Islam in Chicago...
Even though he looks militant enough in the dress blues of the Fruit of Islam, the Black Muslims' Special Forces, Boxer Cassius Clay, 24, is a peaceful sort-as he loudly announced to the U.S. Selective Service when it reclassified him 1-A. "I don't have no quarrel with those Viet Congs," blared the Greatest. So the Illinois Boxing Commission canceled his March 29 title bout with Ernie Terrell in Chicago. Louisville didn't want him either, nor did Pittsburgh or Bangor, Me. At last the desperate Muslim-backed promoters looked outside the country, only...