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...after midnight indicated that once again intrigue was brewing in the South Yemen capital. Ostensibly for reasons of health, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 40, had resigned as his country's President and secretary-general of the ruling Socialist Party. Replacing him in both positions was Prime Minister Ali Nasser Muhammad, 41. In fact, there had been a bloodless coup...
...Nasser Muhammad is also a Marxist but, unlike his predecessor, apparently has a gift for compromise. In his first speech as President, he praised the friendship treaty with Moscow and vowed: "Our party will continue to struggle for Lenin's principles." At the same time, Nasser Muhammad began patching up quarrels with his neighbors. Within a day of taking office, he sent a special envoy to Saudi Arabia, whose approval is essential for unification with North Yemen. That goal may be closer than ever. Replying to a friendly overture from Nasser Muhammad, North Yemen's strongman, Lieut. Colonel...
Experts say hostage taking is against Muhammad's teachings
...guidance in such matters, Muslims usually turn first to the Koran, then to the Hadith, a collection of the teachings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad. They also rely on a legal code that Islamic jurists developed centuries before Europe heard of international law. A TIME survey of Islamic scholars shows that religious justification for holding the U.S. hostages can hardly be found in any of these three sources...
Islamic tradition has always extended charity to diplomats and wayfarers. According to the Mishkat-ul-Mas-abih, a standard Hadith text, an enemy courier named Abu Rafi converted to Islam, but Muhammad insisted he return to his tribe so that the Prophet might avoid even a faint suspicion that he had taken Rafi as a hostage. Muhammad declared flatly, "I do not break treaties, nor do I make prisoners of envoys." The Koran 9:6 insists that even a religious enemy be granted asylum and conveyed to safety...