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...fancy is Berg's courtship of Libyan Strongman Gaddafi. Last spring, the Mo Letters began to talk about "godly socialism" and to describe Gaddafi as the savior who will ignite the young and rescue them from those twin sources of evil, godless Communism and American materialism. The Moslem leader, in return, has commended the C.O.G. on Libyan radio and has invited a son and daughter of Berg to visit him in Tripoli...
Uganda's unpredictable General Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada may be a Moslem, but last week he was sounding off on equal rights for women. Suiting action to his words, he appointed as Uganda's Ambassador to Egypt Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34, once a top fashion model and Uganda's first woman barrister. The princess has been a firm Amin supporter since Big Daddy seized power in 1971. She was rewarded with a U.N. post and the job of roving ambassador for Amin. Packing her bags in her Kampala home, the statuesque princess (her family were...
...contrast, Gaddafi, 31, is a fundamentalist Moslem zealot, who scrupulously observes the Ramadan fast. Since coming to power in a 1969 coup, he has revived such early Islamic practices as amputating the hands of thieves and the public stoning of adulterers. He has made it illegal for foreigners as well as Libyans to drink liquor. The most consistently bellicose of Arab leaders, he has urged a holy war to exterminate Israel...
Working for TIME also placed an unusual burden on one of Rowan's colleagues in the Hong Kong bureau, David Aikman. After completing an interview with Moslem rebels in the southern Philippines, Aikman was paddling down a creek when an entire rebel village - men, women and children with assorted weapons - hailed him from the shore. "They said they were fighting for secession from the Philippines," he reports, "but they had a novel alternative to independence: they wanted to be taken over by the U.S. and imagined that I had been granted Kissingeresque powers to rearrange national sovereignties...
...IRAN, a Moslem country that strongly opposes using oil as a political weapon, is the only Middle Eastern state to continue pumping at full capacity; in the past two months it has boosted production by about 700,000 bbl., to 6,000,000 bbl. a day. Iran also sweetened its oil earnings in October when, in concert with the Arab states, it hiked the price of its crude by a walloping 70%, to $8.20 per bbl.; it auctioned some oil last week at more than double that quote. Experts believe that another 20% increase is in the offing. As recently...