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Abandoning Nasser. This new freedom will dramatically affect Egyptian women. Until recently, most girls stayed uneducated at home, in keeping with Islamic tradition. There is still a Moslem bloc that favors keeping women in this state. When the National Assembly recently debated a divorce bill, students from the 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University demonstrated in protest. But the liberation of women in Egypt's increasingly open society is inevitable. One-fourth of Egypt's 200,000 university students are coeds, and 74% of all women graduates are working. More pantsuits than veils are seen these days...
...harshest critic of Sadat's pro-American policies is neighboring Libya and its President, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Last week Egyptian-Libyan relations hit a new low when Cairo implied that Gaddafi-a Moslem zealot who fancies himself Nasser's heir as the champion of the Islamic world-was personally linked to a plot to topple Sadat. As Egyptian officials tell it, a 38-year-old fanatic named Saleh Abdulla Sareya (a Palestinian with an Iraqi passport) led a group of youths armed only with knives in an attack against the Egyptian army's Technical Military Academy...
...Bhutto announced that Pakistan would recognize its breakaway eastern wing at the Lahore summit meeting of Moslem leaders in February. More surprising was Pakistan's formal acknowledgment in the agreement that the prisoners had, in Bangladesh's words, committed "war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide." The Pakistan government "condemned and deeply regretted any crimes that may have been committed...
...attack from the Roman Catholic Church, to which 90% of all Filipinos belong. The hierarchy has accused the government of harassment. Church schools have been taxed, foreign-born priests arrested and convents ransacked. Despite Marcos' periodic claims that his army has crushed the rebellion in the south, where Moslem insurgents are struggling to establish an independent state, the fighting has actually grown fiercer...
...MOSLEM REBELLION: We captured the main headquarters of the Moro National Liberation Front on March 11 in Batong Puti. We captured all their documents. They were in a cave that would have held 1,000 men. Undoubtedly, some of our lower-echelon officials have irritated the Moslems by not being flexible enough. For instance, when I proclaimed that nobody could carry a gun, some of our police and constabulary disarmed the Moslems in an alienating manner in markets and other public places. But one thing I'd like to make clear. We can handle any insurgency or infiltration...