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...Jordanian. They fly one 707, two 720s and two Caravelles-which will doubtless be sold to make room for two new 727s recently approved for purchase by the Jordanian Cabinet. The line's major customers are still Palestinians from round the world returning home for a visit and Moslems from Arab states and Black Africa visiting Mecca for the hajj or pilgrimage that every devout Moslem is supposed to make at least once in his life. But Alia sees the growth of "the Bible traffic" as its real future...
...shouldn't he have the right to do so. [Because the status of the occupied territories is still unsettled, the Israeli government has forbidden Jews to buy land on the West Bank.] The other interest is security. We have no ambi tion to be the rulers of the Moslem Arabs, but it is a different thing to have the right of Jews to live in this area, near them, with them and by them. For a while what I see on the West Bank is not a dividing line between two states but a kind of arrangement...
Philippines. Reports continue to filter out about clashes in the southernmost islands of the Philippines between 'Moslem insurgents' and government troops. Unless Saladin or Haroon al-Rashid have been reincarnated, something more than the importance of Mohammed is at issue here. Perhaps it is the dictatorial and repressive American-backed regime of Ferdinand Marcos, who will run for office next year in a special plebescite--which, if held, would violate the nation's constitution...
...Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator of the Phillipines, is another mini-Nixon from the Third World. Marcos declared permanent martial law last year to deal with a 'nattonal emergency,' an uprising among allegedly 'Moslem fanatics' in the southernmost island of the nation. Although news reports from the revolutionary zones have been scarce, it seems reasonable to surmise that something more than a mere religious quarrel is prompting the revolt...
...Fearful Moslem authorities in 19th Century Persia did their best to stamp out Baha'u 'Llah and his camp of followers, coming close to success on a number of occasions, but the leader survived to leave half a dozen books describing the Baha'i plan before he died in 1892. The plan, in the words of an official Baha'i publication, "offers a clear pattern of world order," without invoking any "secret mystic doctrines." That plan is now overseen by an elected nine-mancouncil located in Israel which also sets policy for Baha'is in those areas neglected...