Word: moslem
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...week-long festivities of the Moslem sacrificial feast known as Eid-ul-Azha had not yet ended. Suddenly one evening as Pakistanis gathered in their local mosques for prayers an earthquake rumbled across the northern part of the country. Within moments, thousands of buildings collapsed into rubble, and some mountain villages were practically wiped from the map. By the time the tremors finally stopped 24 hours later, at least 5,100 people were dead, and more than 15,000 injured...
...From which, according to Moslem legend, the prophet Mohammed as cended into heaven astride his favorite white steed, Buraq...
...Philippine government is likely to step up its fight against Moslem rebels (supplied in part by arms from Libya) on the Sulu Islands and Mindanao. The Moslems of these regions demand greater autonomy, but Manila's answer is to send in more troops. Fatalities in the past year have been running as high as 200 per month...
...Last month, however, at a meeting of its 135-member General Conference, a bloc of Arab and Communist delegates, backed by Third World representatives, cut off Israel's $12,000 cultural allocation for 1975. The Arabs charged that Israeli construction programs and archaeological excavations in Jerusalem are endangering Moslem monuments and altering the historical character of the Holy City. Experts who had been previously sent to Jerusalem by UNESCO had reported that the accusations against Israel were exaggerated...
Arafat, 44, was born in Jerusalem, the son of a textile merchant. He was a member of one of the city's best-known clans, the Husseinis, and a distant relative of the Grand Mufti, the Moslem spiritual leader who led the first revolt against the British mandate. As a youth, Arafat was involved in the Arab-Israeli fighting of 1947-48 and became a refugee when his family fled to Gaza. While studying at the University of Cairo, Arafat became president of the local Palestinian Students Federation, and served in the Egyptian army during the 1956 war. Later...