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Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, K.B.E., 47, is Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous (35 million) nation, which will get its independence next Oct. 1. His name comes from the little village of Tafawa Balewa in the Northern Region, the huge Moslem half of the country, which dominates Nigerian politics by sheer weight of numbers (19 million). In a region ruled by the emir aristocracy, Abubakar's rise was especially noteworthy, for he was a talakawa, child of a poor commoner. Uncommonly bright, he closed the gap with education, luckily gaining entry to the area...
...Army helicopters circled over Khrushchev's party as it progressed from Bogor to Bandung. Reason: a fear that one of the nearby Moslem rebel groups might try to pull off an assassination...
Nosing around his brothers in Detroit's Moslem Temple last January, Fuller, him self a past Potentate, picked up a hot fraternal tip: by decree of the Imperial Potentate of the Mystic Shrine of North America, two Detroit officers, Illustrious Potentate Herbert E. Payne Jr. and Chief Rabban J. Murray Brown, had been suspended for unfraternal conduct. By Shrine standards, their sins were grievous: Payne had "mishandled a recent Temple business session"; and Brown had allowed "unauthorized persons to sign contracts for the annual Shrine circus" in Detroit...
...present, the Mandaeans do their best to perform their daily water rituals and to exorcise evil spirits. Mandaean demons are bad enough, but Moslem or Christian ones are worse. If after an exorcism, an evil spirit departs on time he is known for a Mandaean-but if he hangs on after the limit, he is probably Moslem or Christian, and the possessed victim is in for a rough time...
Tunisia's modern-minded President Habib Bourguiba, a Moslem himself, regards Ramadan as so much cultural excess baggage. He has already officially abolished the veil in Tunisia and introduced European notions of marriage and divorce in place of Islamic laws, in which women have little or no rights. Then he set to work on Ramadan, a custom which he believes helps hold Islamic countries in "stagnation, weakness and decadence." Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn...