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Champagne glasses clinked in Bang kok last week. At long last, Indonesia's konfrontasi with Malaysia was over. It had taken the Deputy Premiers of the two Moslem nations only three glowing days together to resolve most of their differences, agree on "practical steps to restore friendly relations," and call off the three-year war that had given all of Southeast Asia the jitters. "It is a moving spectacle," beamed Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, who had sponsored the talks, "to see estranged friends shake hands again and even embrace...
...church an official establishment, with the government the legal owner of the nation's 23,000 temples - one for every 1,300 Thais. Monks in the northeast are helping in community-development projects and dis tributing medicine and clothes to needy villagers. In a cool mountain valley in Moslem Yala province, the government recently resettled 300 Buddhist families, plans to bring in 5,000 more within five years as a stabilizing influence...
...Strongman Colonel Houari Boumedienne stopped by to ask if Aït Ahmed wouldn't agree to support the new regime. All to no avail. One night last week, when Djamila, other relatives, and neighbors trooped homeward, the group also included an extra, heavily cloaked figure in a Moslem woman's head-to-foot white haik. Friendly guards looked the other way. Before Boumedienne got the word several hours later, Aït Ahmed had been whisked to the coast ten miles away and put on a yacht bound for Europe...
...romantic history of Cannabis would include mention of the fanatic Moslem sect of Hashashins (or "Assassins")--who murdered under its influence--and of writers like Baudelaire, Dumas, and some of our contemporaries who have found in it creative inspiration. A less romantic history might chronicle the squalid introduction of Cannabis into the United States by Mexican immigrants and migrant laborers in the South...
...assassination attempts), and the experiences have brought Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi a good deal closer to Allah, says a friend. In any case, the Shah does not like Gamal Abdel Nasser's frequent attacks calling him an infidel. So to emphasize his pride in being a good Moslem, the Iranian ruler ordered the printing of a new edition of the Koran at his own expense ($250,000 so far). Using a previously unreproduced 16th century version by Calligrapher Ahmed Neirizi, 40 experts spent a year re-checking every word; then the Shah announced that the first 3,000 copies...