Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although couched in humanitarian terms, most foreign appeals seemed motivated by concern for Pakistan's stability. Since the country was carved out of British India as a Muslim "land of the pure" 32 years ago, Pakistan has had three constitutions and suffered through three military coups, plus repeated doses of martial law. In July 1977 General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the army Chief of Staff, seized power after aggrieved mullahs and members of the middle class took to the streets to protest Bhutto's political corruption. Zia has moved cautiously to cleanse politics and restructure the nation...
...Challenge of the Sexes (CBS). The victory would be just, for the last two hours of Roots: The Next Generations are about as good as television gets. Besides containing the 8½-minute Brando-Jones confrontation, this segment recounts Haley's collaboration with Malcolm X on the Black Muslim's classic autobiography. As played by Al Freeman Jr. and written (in nine drafts) by Kinoy, Malcolm is the first black radical ever to be portrayed as an intelligent, three-dimensional character on television...
Nearby the Harvard Muslim Students Association distributed a statement challenging the HJLSA charges...
...cooperation of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, would constitute what one Jerusalem official calls "a serious military defense problem along our northern borders." Moreover, the governments of Syria and Iraq are worried about the current upheaval in Iran and the rising militancy of Iran's Shi'ite Muslim majority. Iraq is particularly worried because it too has a large Shi'ite population...
...officer in the French army until 1954. He then joined the clandestine National Liberation Army, eventually rising to the command of its 13th battalion, based near F.L.N. sanctuaries in Tunisia. After independence, he was picked by Boumedienne to head the important second military district, based in Oran. A devout Muslim whose wife never appears in public without a veil, Chadli has avoided the political limelight. In his ten-minute acceptance speech last week, he vowed that he would be a faithful guardian of the Boumedienne legacy. He declared, "I affirm that socialism is an irreversible option for our country...