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...Ethiopia. (The U.S., at the same time, has strengthened its ties with Cairo and Khartoum but, with the fall of Haile Selassie and the rise of the leftist military regime in Addis Ababa, has lost out there.) The Soviets have given the Ethiopians $100 million in military aid, while Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi-ever the Arab world's odd man out-has done the same. Moreover, an estimated 3,000 Cubans are now in Ethiopia helping to prepare the peasant army for its assault on Eritrea...
Five Arab states in the Middle East-Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Libya, North Yemen-base their laws on the Koran. In Egypt, which prides itself on its Western-style sophistication, a parliamentary commission is at work on a new code, based on Islamic law, that would make apostasy, among other crimes, punishable by death. A rider to the proposed bill provides that if a Muslim becomes a Communist he would be considered apostate and therefore subject to beheading...
...North Yemen, a convicted thief is required to pick up his chopped-off hand and raise it to his forehead in a salute to the presiding judge. That sort of thing is not done in more liberalized Muslim societies like Libya. Although Strongman Muammar Gaddafi imposed Koranic law in 1973, thieves are usually jailed instead of having their hands amputated. "We want these people to work," says a Libyan police official. "How can they work if we cut off their hands...
...gathered for their four-day annual exercise in disharmony at a spanking-new conference center in Libreville, the sleepy seaside capital of Gabon. Shortly after Host President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo pleaded for "a summit at which we talk about what unites us, not what divides us," Chad accused Libya of seizing 45,000 sq. mi. of Chadian territory. Ethiopia charged that it was the victim of a "coordinated conspiracy" of aggression led by Somalia and Sudan. Somalia countered that Ethiopia was in fact an aggressor guilty of "black colonialism," "murder" and "massacres." Benin did not even bother to attend...
...Lebanon took an unanticipated chunk from the organization treasury-according to one reliable estimate about $100 million. Although most of the P.L.O.'s guns and ammunition were underwritten by other countries, notably Libya, the organization has had to care for 4,000 disabled fighters as well as dependents of the dead. Widows continue to receive $75 a month, parents $25, brothers or sisters $10 and children $5 each. Since the war, the P.L.O. has founded Samed (Arabic for steadfast), a kind of poor man's conglomerate of 24 factories and workshops in Lebanon that provide jobs...