Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus began one of the most spectacular murder trials in Italian history. Starting last January, it took 57 hearings and 300 hours of juicy testimony. Witnesses from Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon and Switzerland babbled in six languages. Claire shrieked obscenities in Arabic, jolting her lawyer, ex-Italian Premier Giovanni Leone. One witness recoiled from facing Claire, and the court traveled to Hamburg to interview...
Medical evidence of the benefits of mother's milk has been steadily piling up, says Dr. Benjamin Kagan of Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, and "there's a definite resurgence of interest in breast feeding. .Now more than 50% of pregnant patients ask about it." But even though they ask, most mothers have doubts. Some fear that they are incapable of providing sufficient nourishment for their infants, although 90% of all women are physically capable of breast feeding their babies...
Elsewhere in Islam, some pillars of the faith are crumbling. In Algeria and Tunisia, few town dwellers bother to stop work or play for the five-time ritual of daily prayer. In the cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...
...Africa and the Middle East, for whom heaven is more likely to be a well-paying job with an oil company than a houri-filled paradise. For hundreds of years Moslem women have had to endure the restrictions of purdah-seclusion and heavy veiling. The liberated young ladies of Lebanon, long freed from purdah, now wear bikinis on the beaches of Beirut, dance the watusi at discothèques, and even marry Christians. "The young intelligentsia are fighting to modernize," says Dr. Régis Blachère of Paris' Institute of Islamic Studies. "They would like Islam...
Predictably, Israel's decision also touched off demonstrations all over the Arab world. In Baghdad, 10,000 Iraqis stormed Bonn's embassy and set it afire, and 4,000 Yemenis gave the embassy in Ta'iz the same treatment. In Lebanon, there were riots in seven towns, one injuring 23 students and police. Only tough police action protected German embassies in Syria, Egypt and the Sudan from angry mobs...