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...with excruciating directness to erect a new social order there, a political unit that would continue the support of West Pakistan's dominance over the economic and political life of the nation. With the March pogrom designed to wipe out an of rusive Hindu minority and seed a loyal Moslem middle class, the military leaders hoped they could create a province loyal to be whims of the western, almost entirely Moslem, portion of the nation. In democratic elections held the previous December the people of East Pakistan had cast ballots over whelmingly in favor of a regional parts. Shark Mupbar...
Mubarak has dealt firmly with the country's Moslem militants without seeming to be vengeful. Like Sadat, he says he will not permit religious-based political parties. But Sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim of the American University in Cairo observes, "He is not doing things that antagonize the militants. He gives an image of being clean, firm and fair." The fundamentalists, in fact, approve of Mubarak's campaign against corruption, his proposal to curb luxury imports, and his studiously private family life. "Some of the militants think he is redeemable and that they can establish a dialogue with...
...live up to them, no matter how unpopular his actions proved'to be. While the peace initiative was well received in Egypt, it earned Sadat the wrath of the rest of the Arab world. More recently, Sadat struck harshly at internal discord, detaining 1600 opponents to his regime, mostly Moslem militants. That repressive measure is believed to have directly instigated his assassination...
...years Christian West is in drunken stupor while Moslem East is sober! Henry Ratliff...
Harvard professors have received a record number of federal summer grants this year to sponsor seminars on topics ranging from "The Unity of Learning in the Late Middle Ages" to "Moslem-Ethnic Minorities in the Middle East and USSR...