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...halting English, a Moslem telegraph operator in the Middle East tapped out on the telex: "Is it correct Kennedy killed pis?" When New York replied, "Yes, an hour ago," the Moslem signed off, "How sorrowful...
Founder Aflak, 53, whose scholarly manner has won him the nickname "The Professor," defines Baath through his career as much as through his words. Born in Damascus to the Greek Orthodox faith in an overwhelmingly Moslem environment (Aflak's father was a moderately successful grain merchant, and his mother, now 75, is still illiterate), Aflak got honors in history at the Sorbonne. In Paris he argued politics with other Afro-Asian students, read Marx, Nietzsche and Jefferson. He says, "I quickly found Marxism inadequate, based on materialism without human and spiritual values, without national consciousness. Nations are only large...
...boxes by the thousands. No longer did landlords transport villagers to the polls in trucks, with their prepaid votes in hand. For the first time in a parliamentary election, veiled women in wrap-around chadors lined up with the menfolk at polling booths. Although the Shah put anti-reform Moslem mullahs (priests) under house arrest, barred political rallies, and closed up 75 Teheran dailies and weeklies, his most vociferous critics agreed that the crackdown was unnecessary...
Unperturbed, Sir Abubakar, a Moslem from the North, went ahead with plans to convert Nigeria on Oct. 1 from a British dominion to a republic within the British Commonwealth. Sir Abubakar will remain the real boss. The changeover will merely install a ceremonial President as head of state to replace Queen Elizabeth, who is now sovereign...
...because everybody knows everybody and everybody's business. Aramco's 4,267 U.S. employees and dependents live in company-built suburbias (rent: $300 a month for an air-conditioned three-bedroom bungalow) that also house Aramco Arab executives' families. The Americans are taught to defer to Moslem sensibilities. Though the government permits Aramco's Americans to have Christian religious services, it forbids display of the Cross. Imports of whisky, beer and wine are banned, but the men who can refine crude oil have little trouble in distilling bathtub gin and Scotch, known locally as "the white...