Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...historic meeting; some U.S. experts speculated that it might run as long as five or six days and not end until early this week. Before the conclave began, it was feared that considerable negotiating time would be lost as each leader observed his own Sabbath: Friday for Moslem Sadat, Saturday for Jewish Begin and Sunday for Christian Carter. But the weekend did not bring the talks to a standstill...
...same time, it is not yet clear what the longterm political implications of these latest protests will be. The challenge does not appear to be explicitly political. Rather, it originates from the Iranian community of fundamentalist Moslem clergy--socially more conservative than the Shah--who oppose several of his recent moves toward Westernization. For the time being, one can only note the irony that the first dent in the armor or this fundamentally despotic government may come in response to its attempts at liberalization. It remains to be seen, however, whether there will be room at a later stage...
Madame Rosa is a former whore; Momo is the son of a different whore. Mme. Rosa is a Jew; she raises Momo as a Moslem. She was the only member of her family to survive Auschwitz; he was abandoned by his parents at age three. She is haunted by past persecution; he is tortured because he can't be sure of his ancestry...
...Rosa does not hide her sensuality as well; she demands special behavior from Momo, and the more he complies the more obvious her special attention to Momo at the expense of the other children becomes. As he grows older not only does he become more convinced that what his Moslem mentor Monsieur Hasil says is true--to live you have to love something or someone--and he begins to focus that love on Madame Rosa...
...Kojak-bald Moslem, Daoud had been beset by rising unrest. Complaints about climbing prices and feckless administration mounted, and were exploited by an increasingly active Communist movement called Khalq (the masses). Last month, a Communist leader was killed in Kabul, sparking a demonstration by thousands of mourners, who took the occasion to protest the murder and, for some reason, to shout anti-American slogans. The subsequent arrest of half a dozen leftist leaders may have triggered the coup...