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Sitting lotus fashion on a small rug in his cottage, Khomeini these days receives a constant stream of Iranian visitors and inquisitive reporters. In a voice barely above a whisper, he issues unrelenting calls for a jihad (holy war) against the Shah and his replacement by a democratically elected Islamic republic, which Khomeini professes no interest in heading. He wants to reduce Western influence in Iran. The appointment of the new military government, he told TIME Paris Correspondent Sandy Burton last week, "will not change anything. Rather, it will intensify the unrest and strikes ... The goal of our people...
Luckily, Palestinian commandos have not sought serious trouble with U.N. forces. Rather they, like the Israelis, have been watching carefully to see what the other side would do next. Abu Jihad, the P.L.O. commander in the south, visited one location last week within sight of Israeli tanks. "So far as we can see," he said, "the Israelis have not moved one inch...
Origins and Legacy of the Jihad Movements in West Africa--Nehimia Levtztion, Sever...
Also on Tuesday, Nehimia Levtzion, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will give two talks. (The guy should become president.) The first, on the "Origins and Legacy of the Jihad Movements in West Africa" will take place at 10 a.m. in Sever 24. The other seminar, "Islam in Contemporary West African Politics," is at 12:15 in seminar room 3 at 1737 Cambridge Street...
Belated Concessions. Had Bhutto made such concessions six weeks or a month ago, there is a chance they might have quashed the rising opposition to his government. But it may be too late. The opposition's call for a jihad (holy war) against the Prime Minister has unleashed repressed grievances among Pakistanis embittered by summary arrests and imprisonment of government critics even before the current disorders...