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...Nasserites, Egyptian Communist Writer Fathi Abdel Fattah tells of leftists imprisoned during Nasser's reign who were not allowed to wear shoes even while being forced to do hard labor in desert areas infested by scorpions and snakes. Another anti-Nasser book, called Second Grade in Prison by Mustafa Amin, a prominent rightist who spent nine years in Nasser's jails, charges that 21 political prisoners were murdered in their cells in 1957 simply because they refused to do hard labor...
...Kurds, an estimated 100,000 of whom are fighting under longtime Leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani, 76, are a non-Arab Moslem nation of mountain people whose ancient homeland covers parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union. Iran has successfully integrated 650,000 of its own Kurds. Baghdad has promised the Kurds autonomy and proportionate representation in Iraq's Arab, socialist government. But Barzani has held out for independence, and since 1958, his forces have been sniping at the Iraqi army from mountain redoubts near the Iranian border...
...Turks' hard-lining stand was bolstered by the discovery of a mass grave at the village of Maratha in eastern Cyprus, with 84 crumbling corpses; the village's population had been only 93. As Village Shepherd Kemal Mustafa described it, Greek gunmen entered Maratha Aug. 14, herded away elderly men, women and children and shot them. The number of victims was confirmed by Swedish United Nations officers. Greek authorities rather unconvincingly said that the corpses might be Greek Cypriots instead of Turkish-a suggestion that the Turks angrily denounced as an "added insult to our grief." Later...
...issues affecting Syria's security are referred to the 21-member Baath Party High Command, acting as a court of appeal. But it is the army that wields the final sanction, and during the disengagement discussions with Israel, Assad made sure that his Defense Minister, Major General Mustafa Tlas, and other senior military officers were intimately involved...
Muslims but not Arabs, the baggy-trousered, occasionally blue-eyed Aryan Kurds of Iraq make up about one-fourth of the country's population of roughly 10.4 million. The Kurdish guerrilla army, called Pesh Merga (which means "facing death"), is led by a tenacious nationalist, Mulla Mustafa Barzani, 75. It numbers about 40,000 regulars. Iraq can draw on a 90,000-man army that is well equipped and advised by the Soviet Union; Defense Minister Andrei Grechko flew to Baghdad for consultations soon after the negotiations between the government and the Kurds broke...