Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...badly eroded in recent years by his highhanded ways. After the March elections, he tried doggedly to come to terms with opposition leaders on conditions for holding new elections in the fall. He imposed nationwide prohibition of alcoholic beverages in an effort to win the support of conservative Muslim elements...
...sleeping soundly at his home in Helwan, 15 miles south of Cairo, when four armed men in police uniforms burst in and dragged him away. They were not policemen. Sheik Zahaby, Egypt's former minister of religious affairs and a distinguished expert on Islam, was kidnaped by youthful Muslim extremists who threatened to execute him unless the government paid $300,000 and released 60 of their comrades from jail. Even while the government negotiated, the kidnapers last week carried out their threat. Three days after the sheik's disappearance, his body was discovered in a house near...
Israelis used to claim that their occupation of the West Bank was "the most benign in history." They would point out that West Bank Arabs were still allowed to carry Jordanian passports, that Muslim courts determined the law in most of the area's 500 cities and hamlets, and that municipal elections have been held in accordance with Jordanian law. All that is still true, but some Israelis now concede that their military .rule over the Palestinians is not only deeply resented but in many ways quite cruel. Last March the U.S. State Department cited Israel's administration...
...election results came as no great surprise. In Indonesia, the military is omnipresent if not quite omnipotent, and the two main opposition groups - the Muslim United Development Party (P.P.P.) and the Democratic Party of Indonesia (P.D.I.) - had to endorse Suharto for President as a precondition for fielding any candidates at all. "There is no question that Suharto is in charge," said one foreign diplomat shortly before balloting began. "The military is united and they support him. The great mass of people think that things are as they are, and that's that...
...same extremes of wealth and poverty that led, in part, to Sukarno's downfall. One clue to the potential depth of discontent: in the capital of Jakarta, a teeming (pop. about 6 million) city of shopping centers and new high-rise hotels that overlook crumbling shanty towns, the Muslim party, which had campaigned against the regime's abuse of power, won 46.7% of the vote, while Golkar got only 34.8%. Cabled TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who spent ten days touring Indonesia just before the election: "The powerful odor of corruption that emanates from government buildings detracted from Suharto...