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Even by the standards of Hollywood, the Third World and the CIA (and they all apply), Burt Nelson has real problems. Burt, who narrates this stingingly funny picaresque, is in Morocco to write the script of an Arab-backed movie biography of Muhammad, a "couscous Western," as the director calls it. Along the way, Burt becomes entangled with the producer's secretary-mistress, a Palestinian terrorist, and is kidnaped by Moroccan radicals who rashly expect his employers to pay $1 million in ransom. Burt, however, not only knows his "onions on Islam," he is a part-time spook...
...Harvard Black Law Student Association (BLSA) decides to protest the class, charging that a tenure-track minority professor, not temporary visitors regardless of their national stature, should be brought to the Law School to teach the class BLSA President Muhammad I. Kenyatta writes to Julius L. Chambers, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who is to teach the class...
...DIED. Muhammad Idris el Mahdi es Senussi, 93, first and only King of Libya for 18 years until he was overthrown in a coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly...
...music to their lives. She expressed reciprocal fondness for the warmth of the Harvard admirers and deep appreciation for the Harvard Foundation's recognition. Mr. Leonard, the second prize fighter to visit Harvard in the last decade, was equally gracious and appealing (the Class of 1975 invited Muhammad Ali as its Class Day speaker...
...never been more than a reluctant Soviet suitor. For two years after the treaty's signing, Assad mysteriously failed to reappoint a Syrian Ambassador to Moscow. Following Israel's crushing victories last summer, however, Assad's room for maneuver shrank. Two months ago, Syrian Ambassador Muhammad Ah' Halabi presented his credentials in Moscow. Despite the dramatic increase in Soviet military aid to Syria, foreign analysts are leery of attaching too much importance to the relationship. Says a Western diplomat in Damascus: "Right now this is a very happy marriage of convenience...