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There is a long-term threat to the West in increased Russian exploration and political gains in the Moslem countries, but the Soviet bloc obviously could not absorb all that oil. Europe's more immediate concern is the prospect that the Arabs and the oil companies might settle their differences by increasing their prices to European customers-and simply splitting the extra profit...
...symbolic drama, or behave with maddening inconsistency in other ways. Mercurial and emancipated, Dr. Aziz in A Pas sage to India at first seems to come on as a stereotyped native victim of senseless prejudice. He is a victim. But he also proves to be arrogant: an Indian Moslem, he is as indifferent to the concerns of Hindus as they...
...Israeli incursions and the fleeing farmers created a new crisis for Premier Rashid Karami's government in Beirut. Most of the refugees belong to the Moslem Shia sect, who hold the menial jobs in Lebanon and who have long received second-class treatment in domestic matters from Lebanon's Christians and the religiously dominant Sunni sect, to which Karami and most Moslems in his Cabinet belong. Now the peasants were angry at becoming pawns in war. Imam Mousa Sadr, religious leader of the Shia, called an effective one-day strike last week that even curtailed operations at Beirut...
...Netherlands, with 60,000 migrants, has modified its welfare legislation so that Moslem workers can draw allowances for the children of more than one wife. In Britain, one veteran restaurantgoer remarks ruefully, "To dine out successfully in London today, a rapid course in Spanish and Italian is advisable. But if you want to be sure of getting what you order, ask for spaghetti." In Leeds, the winner of a recent Yorkshire pudding baking contest turned out to be a Chinese cook who spoke no English and called the prize-winning dish shortska po din (because that is how it sounded...
...most economically successful nation in the Moslem Middle East, Iran is enjoying the pleasures of material progress-and suffering from some of its discomforts. In Teheran, where the population has mushroomed beyond 2,500,000, automobile traffic is both heavy and frightening, more chaotic than it is in Tokyo, Bangkok or Beirut. Middle-aged women gaze disapprovingly at the miniskirted teenagers. Many Iranians can afford to buy the autos and clothes of their choice because the Alaska-size country no longer has an economy based on "the three C's": cotton, carpets and caviar. Under the prodding...