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When Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war, no one was more outspokenly friendly toward the occupiers than Sheik Kamal Kanj. A leader of the Druse, an esoteric sect that broke away from Islam in the 11th century, and a former member of the Syrian Parliament, Kanj had Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon as an overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community...
...another exotic moniker for sports fans to stumble over: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the impressive appellation by which 7-ft. 2-in. Basketball Star Lew Alcindor wishes to be known henceforth. Jabbar, a convert from Roman Catholicism, is not a Black Muslim like Boxer Muhammad Ali, but a member of Islam's orthodox Sunni sect. As for his new name, he explained to a press conference that Kareem means "noble" or "generous"; Abdul, "servant of Allah"; Jabbar, "powerful." Jabbar, who left on a three-week tour of Africa with his bride of one week, added that he did not expect...
...Egypt's Arab character actually is limited, even though the country's official language is Arabic and its formal religion Islam. Bedouin Arabs constitute a sizable minority, but so do Copts and Nubians. Ethnically the predominant Egyptian is a Mediterranean rather than Arabian man, and he has changed surprisingly little since pharaonic times...
...Gamal, 14, as well as with Sadat's two collies, Lassie and Whip. There are also three other daughters, all in their 20s and married to army officers. They are Sadat's children by his first wife; he is still legally married to her, as is permitted in Islam; she still lives in the delta...
Last Thursday night, Muhammad Ali, minister of the Lost Found Nation of Islam in North American and heavy-weight fighter, spoke at Boston University's Sargent Gym at the invitation of B.U.'s Martin Luther King, Jr. Afre-American Center in conjunction with the University's Distinguished Lecture Series. Ali, who has made 22 college lectures since the so-called "Fight of the Century," was scheduled to appear the previous Thursday; however, negotiations for a fight with basketbaill player Wilt Chamberlain had prevented him from making the appearance. Consequently, the crowd of 800, roughly half black, half white...