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...same velvet-gloved approach characterizes his conduct of foreign affairs. In the Arab world, the Saudis are resented by some of their Islamic brethren as nouveau riche desert barbarians. But Fahd is on speaking terms with almost every leader (one notable exception: Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who refuses to deal with him). On the theory that Saudi Arabia's first line of defense is diplomatic, he avoids quarrels even with Arab radicals, preferring to build as broad a range of contacts as he can. In the interests of preserving Arab unity, he has mediated between leftist Algeria and royalist Morocco...
...birth rate is much higher than that of the 3.6 million Jews. Many more live in neighboring states such as Jordan and Lebanon, the poorest among them in refugee camps that were first established in the late 1940s. Other Palestinians, many of them well-to-do, are spread from Libya to the Persian Gulf. There are also an estimated 50,000 living in Europe and an additional 60,000 in the U.S., where they have recently become more vocal defending their cause against a much larger body of American Jews and resident Israelis...
Third World socialism embraces such disparate systems as the Islamic socialism preached by Algeria and Libya, the Baathist (Renaissance) socialism of Syria and Iraq, the ujamaa (familyhood) socialism...
Surveying the costs of the welfare state, a businessman confesses: "I'm a little bit scared of the future." Still, Norway's variant of socialism stands a good chance of thriving-if only because of potential benefits of North Sea oil. Like the petro-socialists in Libya, Iraq and Algeria, Norway's Labor Party can count on bankrolling its welfare measures with its oil earnings. This is a route to democratic socialism which few other societies have the luxury of imitating...
Sadat's initiative created a deep division in the Arab world and resulted in his breaking diplomatic relations with all but one of these countries (choose one): A) Syria; B) Iraq; C) Libya; and D) Morocco. This is one of 100 questions that constitute the 44th annual TIME Current Affairs Test, which has been distributed during the past month to schools across the U.S., Canada and Europe. (The correct answer...