Word: moslem
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...soldiers wearing red berets and paratroop uniforms edged through the narrow, dark alleys of Algiers' casbah. A shot from a rooftop tumbled one of the soldiers onto the garbage-strewn cobbles, triggering a savage, five-hour battle in which brother killed brother. As the fighting spread, a veiled Moslem woman in a doorway rocked back and forth in grief, keening, "How can this happen? How can this happen...
...recognized by Indonesia's government, which generally sides with the Arab nations and Communist China in international disputes. Red China had pressured Sukarno for months to exclude Formosa; the Arab bloc did its best to convince Big Bung (brother) that it would be a diplomatic embarrassment for a Moslem nation like Indonesia to play host to Jewish athletes. To keep the two countries out, Sukarno used some gold-medal gamesmanship...
...Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. But his importance goes well beyond the spiritual. President Kennedy, who is seldom seen publicly with U.S. Catholic bishops, will receive him at the White House. At home in Lebanon, Meouchi is frequently consulted by Lebanon's Prime Minister Rashid Karame, a Moslem.* Both Lebanon's Grand Mufti and Jordan's King Hussein are good friends and correspondents of Meouchi's, and Syria's President Nazem El-Koudsi phones him often from Damascus. No Middle Eastern statesman of any faith would think of visiting Lebanon without stopping...
...Pope; when the knights of the First Crusade landed in the Middle East, Maronites were there to help them set up camp. After the Saracen reconquest, the Maronites fought to maintain their independence in fortresses in the Lebanon mountains, provided refuge for other Christians, and even dissident Moslem groups, who were persecuted by the Arabs and Turks...
...bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up,_ Mutt-and-Jeff fashion, to pursue the viruses and the villains. This includes such high jinks as Terry-Thomas' impersonating a hearse driver and tooling off madly with the coffin of a Moslem diplomat, and a terribly dignified monkey who impersonates live diplomats. The distinctly chilly climax occurs in a cable car high above the Alps...