Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indian, you must get into the red man's soul." Serge Parquet, 52, came all the way from Paris with his tepee; as "Chief Walking Bear" he is president of France's Le Cercle Peau-Rouge Huntka (Huntka Redskin Circle). "This is like Mecca to a Muslim," he told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs. Special guests at this year's council were a group of authentic American Indians. Dave Bald Eagle, a full-blooded Cheyenne River Sioux from South Dakota was amazed at the expertise. He said: "These people know as much about the old ways as some...
Quiet and generally unassuming, Qaboos tends to keep a low profile. He often dresses in military uniform without badge or rank, and is seldom recognized when he drives about the country in his Land Rover. Married, with no children, he follows a strict Muslim lifestyle; he never drinks or smokes. His first luxury when he came to power was to order a complete set of Gilbert and Sullivan records and install a stereo set. Of late he has indulged his taste for luxury cars, including two Porsches and several Mercedes...
...radical Arab states. The Saudis are also distrustful of the terms of the peace treaty itself. As Foreign Minister Prince Saud said early this month: "It is impossible to admit any settlement not based on the return of Jerusalem to its 1967 status as an Arab and Muslim city." Crown Prince Fahd took the same line when he declared during a visit to Paris last week: "We either live in Jerusalem, or we die for it . . . Our position is final...
...conviction of Elghanian caused concern among some Jewish businessmen in Iran, who feared that they too could be charged with contributing money to Israel. But most Jews did not believe that their community, which now numbers about 65,000, was being targeted for abuse. Muslim leaders, including Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, have repeatedly stressed that the rights of religious minorities would be protected. "We are uneasy," conceded a Jewish intellectual in Tehran, "but there is no room for panic." And a Jewish university student noted that former Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida, who was executed last month, was also accused of espionage...
...campuses, by far the largest group of foreign students in the U.S. (the next biggest: the 14,000 Taiwanese). About 18,000 of them received some kind of Iranian government subsidy, and most were enrolled in engineering, business or science courses at Western, Southern or Southwestern universities. Some devout Muslim students have returned home. Others are being lured back by various inducements, including the promise of relaxed admissions standards at Iranian universities. Explains Saied Moezzi, a junior in engineering at the University of Kansas: "For some students, it was like a gold rush. Some activists went home to get jobs...