Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Saeb Salam, 53, is a volatile, roly-poly Sunni Moslem who wants to be Premier again. Educated at the famed American University in Beirut, president of the Middle East Airlines, he was invited by Chamoun to become Premier in 1953, and like several other ex-Premiers now in the opposition, was generally accounted pro-Western. Partly from embitterment at Chamoun (he was counted out of a Parliamentary seat at last year's election too) and partly from political opportunism, he now sings Nasser's tune louder than any of the other rebels. He has about 800 troops...
...pastor for 14 years in New Bedford, Mass., and in Los Angeles, and proudly recalls that as a U.S. citizen at the time, "I voted for Roosevelt in 1932." Believing that the church cannot survive if it clashes with dynamic Arab nationalism, Meouchi says: "Either we live with the Moslem Arabs in brotherhood, love and peace or else we must depart and vanish." To win back Lebanon's place as "mediator" between the Arabs and the West, says Patriarch Meouchi, President Chamoun must...
...courtroom in Algiers earlier in the week, Jacef Saadi, onetime boss of Moslem terrorists in the Algiers casbah (TIME, Oct. 7), astounded his French judges by "rallying to De Gaulle." Saadi offered no apologies for the murders he had committed in the name of the Algerian people-and for which the court promptly sentenced him to death. But, said he, "if General de Gaulle had remained on the political scene after the war, if our rights had been recognized earlier, this drama would never have happened...
...Algeria's future, insisted Malraux, lies not with the soldiers, but in the wave of fraternization between French and Moslem Algerians that followed the army insurrection of May 13. "Was fraternization organized at the outset?" he demanded rhetorically. "It seems fairly probable . . . But even if fraternization was organized at the beginning, the moment came when it ceased to be organized . . . We have seen on the television and movie screens more Moslems applaud General de Gaulle than there are fellaghas in the whole of Algeria...
...there he went into an infantry regiment, where he became a chairborne corporal. It was in the melting pot of the French army that he began to acquire a basic sense of frustration. "Wherever I turned," he recalls bitterly, "there was injustice. There were always differences between us, the Moslem inferiors, and the superior Europeans. I was a clerk and I had to fill out forms for new recruits. For Moslems the forms were filled out in red ink, for the French in blue ink. That doesn't seem important, does it? It was important...