Word: moslem
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...tells, which are the corpses of long-dead cities. Early diggers, many of them hardly more than treasure hunters, found little meaning in this hodgepodge of antiquity. Without inscriptions it was almost impossible to identify the various levels of occupation piled one upon another as the centuries passed. Late Moslem ruins were hailed as belonging to the time of Jesus; crusaders' strongholds
...lands where archaeologists are searching out man's past, some of them using the Bible as a guidebook (see SCIENCE), and at a time when Greek Orthodox pilgrims swarm into Old Jerusalem for their Christmas. Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople called the visit "a very progressive act"; Moslem Sheikh Abdullah Alayli of Lebanon more ambiguously declared: "It is like Christ coming back once again to chase the Pharisees from the Temple." But the Pope clearly intended his voyage to be nonpolitical: he will fly to the Holy Land on January 4 with a handful of aides and security...
Married. Prince Mohammed 24 younger brother of Jordan's King Hussein; and Ferial Farid Irshed, 19, daughter of a wealthy Jordanian landowner ma Moslem ceremony at Amman's Zahran Palace, in celebration of which Hussein ordered the release of 40 political prisoners...
...Moslem Music. At the same time, it raised other problems. They found voice among the Middle Eastern patriarchs of Eastern Rite Catholicism, whose hierarchies are at best weak minorities maintaining delicate balance between antagonistic Jews and Moslems. "If we take the matter up, we shall have to face the music," warned Stephanos I Sidarouss, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria (and neighbor of Nasser...
...chapter appeared to be in a strong position: Pope Paul VI was reportedly angered when Radio Cairo cited The Deputy-a West German play that accuses Pope Pius XII of tacitly approving Hitler's anti-Semitism-as evidence that Catholics share Moslem hatred of the Jews. To Paul, the Jewish chapter appears opportune. Though the chapter is being used politically by both Arabs and Israelis, both Bea and Pope Paul have been assured that there will be no overt repression of Christians in Arab lands...