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Arab League Secretary-General Mahmoud Riad called last week's battle "a setback to Arab solidarity." He beseeched both sides to stop fighting, since a war between the neighbors would only benefit the enemy, Israel. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat shuttled between Cairo and Tripoli to soothe tempers. If it comes to a full-scale war, Egypt's army outnumbers Libya's by about 11 to 1 and is much better trained. But Cairo must worry about 200,000 Egyptians who live and work in Libya to bolster that country's infant economy. They would become hostages...
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...also lies at the heart of Arab protests. Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud of Al Azhar University in Cairo, has said: "The Koran is revelation, and the life of the Prophet is a divine commentary on that revelation. The idea of them being portrayed by others is particularly offensive." American viewers may find the theological objections of the faithful difficult to fathom. But they will have to accord them high marks as movie critics...
Iraqi Passport. That was certainly not the only anomaly in the affair. Even the circumstances of Abu Daoud's arrest in Paris were strange. He had come to the French capital as a member of a high-ranking Palestinian delegation to attend the funeral of Mahmoud Saleh, a former P.L.O. representative who had been gunned down a few days earlier on a Paris street. Traveling on an Iraqi passport issued in the name of Youssef Hanna Raji, Abu Daoud made no effort to disguise his easily recognizable features. He breezed through immigration and checked into...
...Cairo, meanwhile, the Arab League met again to discuss the Pan-Arab peace-keeping force, which should eventually number 6,000, and voted it a budget of $12 million for the next six months. The Arab League Secretary-General, Mahmoud Riad of Egypt, said that he had ordered a Sudanese contingent to go directly to Beirut and that Somali and Saudi Arabian units would be arriving shortly in Lebanon...