Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brotherly Pleas. Salem claimed that Communists were responsible for the riots, but that seemed only partly right. More probably, many instigators came from the archconservative Moslem Brotherhood, which has long opposed Sadat's moderate regime...
...Hussein's prison in 1973 and his arrest this month in Paris, Abu Daoud's doings have been murkier than ever. He apparently has concentrated on diplomatic chores for the P.L.O., part of the time in Baghdad. But Daoud also commanded a Palestinian unit that fought with Moslem leftists in Beirut during the Lebanon civil war. Partly because he dropped out of terrorist work and partly because they think he is still working for the Jordanians, Israeli intelligence insists that he is no longer a prime target. "We don't kill spies of friendly nations," says...
...most of Beirut's banks-there were 73 of them clustered around Riad Solh Street before the war-will officially resume business on Jan. 17. Many are functioning already, including the U.S.'s Citibank, which now offers full-service banking in separate offices in the Christian and Moslem quarters of the city. Some bankers fear a run on reopening day, but on the basis of experience so far among banks that have reopened, more Beirutis are likely to deposit-from such war-time enterprises as looting and protection rackets-than withdraw...
...fate of central Beirut. Before the war, this was the commercial and financial hub of the Middle East. During the fighting, a 30-block patchwork of streets in the center was reduced to rubble; 6,000 shops and offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal: to bulldoze the entire 30-block area...
...Palestinians don't have such complexes. Our leadership includes both Christians and Moslems. During the civil war, the isolationists attacked Christian Palestinian refugee camps, just as they attacked Moslem Palestinian camps. In Israel, many Palestinian Christians are in prison. But as I have mentioned often before, a unified Palestine is my dream-and I have the right to dream...