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Under the "Constantine Plan," so named after the Algerian city where De Gaulle announced it in 1958, in the hopes of convincing Algeria's predominantly Moslem population that their best hopes lay in a continued association with France, Paris is investing $600 million a year in Algeria for roads, schools, housing and industry. An effective battle against disease has made Algeria's population grow by a substantial 2.5% a year (lower-class Moslems call penicillin "the drug that helps make babies"), keeping the average income constant and low. But the coming of oil and the Constantine Plan...
Divorced. Sheppard King III, 35, the Texas playboy who turned Moslem to marry his second wife, an Egyptian belly dancer; by Third Wife Mona Johnson King, 38, a former U.S. Government typist; after five years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...trial to the dictator's Christian conscience. The characters represent every racial and religious faction-Yonarus, the fanatic chief of police who is also the secret head of the Christian terrorist organization; U.N. Ambassador Othoe, Poppy's aging, homosexual husband; Iskander Jamal, the flabby leader of the Moslem opposition. Besides its obvious parallel with Lebanon and its divided population, the book has a more esoteric derivation from the story of Emperor Nero, his favorite Poppaea, and her husband Otho. Apart from his ingenious historical allusions. Author McLaughlin, a TIME foreign news writer, offers wry observations on the follies...
...they could not get around to settling their difficulties in Kashmir, they agreed to divide the waters of the Indus River equitably. Some border tensions have eased, and trade between the two bad neighbors has increased. But despite its huge population (with 93.8 million people, it is the biggest Moslem nation in the world), Pakistan has had surprisingly little impact on world councils. Setting out to make Pakistan's influence felt more. Ayub has visited eleven nations in the past year, got foreign aid from West Germany and Japan, will visit President Kennedy in Washington in November. Last month...
Died. Ayatollah Boroujerdi, 89, leader of the Shiites, one of the world's largest Moslem sects, spiritual guide of 70 million believers, chiefly in Iran and Iraq; of a heart attack after fasting for the holy month of Ramadan; in Qum, Iran...