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Indonesia's Suharto is a shrewd pragmatist, but he is also a man who grew up amid the Moslem, Hindu and animist influences of central Java. He frequently plans strategy with military men on the golf course, listens to his impressive array of American-trained economists, and keeps abreast of current trends via tape-recorded textbooks. Suharto also relies on his spiritual advisers. Since his youth, he has consulted an influential mystical teacher, Raden Mas Darjatmo, who serves as a combination dukun, kebatinan (medium) and guru. Suharto often seeks out his old dukun when he visits his home village...
...Algiers. Where next? He wanted to talk to the North Koreans, Leary told reporters. Later he announced that he would enter the U.S. in disguise to attend a Panther rally in New Haven ("There will be many surprises that day"). Later still he said that he would become a Moslem and try to stick it out in Algiers. "I figure that if I return to the U.S.," he said, "I'll go to prison for a total of 38 years...
...does circumcision appear to be a major factor in preventing cancer of the cervix in women. Men of India's Parsi group are not circumcised; Jewish men are. Yet cervical cancer is rare among the wives of both groups. It is more frequent, however, in lower-class Moslem women, whose husbands, though circumcised, maintain low standards of personal hygiene...
...Jews regard circumcision as part of the covenant between God and Abraham (Genesis 17:9-14) and a sign of belonging to the community of Israel. Arabs adopted the practice in pre-Islamic times, have since spread it to all Moslem lands...
...long and luminous success for the Arabs began in the 7th century with the appearance of Mohammed, along with his religion Islam (submission to God's will) and his 80,000-word book of holy writ, the Koran. Under Mohammed's exhortations, the flaming sword of Islam extended Moslem dominion across the Mediterranean basin. Arab armies broke the Byzantine and Persian empires and carried the crescent emblem of Mohammedanism as far west as Spain and southern France and as far east as India and the Chinese border. Saladin, a Kurdish warrior raised in 12th century Arab Damascus, defended the Holy...