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...found out we were dealing with a very serious government, bent on a settlement," Gazit says. But he is quick to point out the lighter side of the difficulties. "The negotiations were in September and between the Moslem Sabbath on Fridays, and Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur falling on Sundays and Mondays that year, it made for amusing negotiations and necessitated and two consecutive 24-hour sessions," he says...
...genitally mutilated (excised and infibulated). This was discussed at a World Health Organization Seminar in Khartoum in February 1979, with ten African and Middle Eastern countries participating, as the operations are also performed in the Middle East, in Egypt and on the Arab Peninsula. It should be added that Moslem girls in Malaysia and parts of Indonesia are also subjected to sexual operations of a less drastic kind than those performed by over 200 ethnic groups living in more than 26 countries in Africa...
...probably the most ineffective way to safeguard American interests. Carter has termed the area "vital" to the security of the United States, vowing to protect it militarily, along with Western Europe and Japan. However, no number of American troops can maintain stability in the face of the resurgence of Moslem fundamentalism and the psychological dislocation of modernization...
...recent take-over of the mosque in Mecca--now known to be a well-organized attempt by Moslem fundamentalists to overthrow the Saudi leadership and not the isolated work of Shiite fanatics--showed that instability in the region is more likely to stem from domestic political unrest them from foreign intervention...
Neither as a student of politics nor a follower of any particular ideology am I qualified to discuss Reverend Kimball's remarks on Iran's present situation (see The Crimson, Jan. 9). But as an Iranian Moslem student currently at the same institution and a member of the Center for the Study of World Religion as is Rev. Kimball, I would like to raise a few questions about his article...