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...resurgence of the Islamic world began with the end of World War II, when the war-weary European powers saw their colonial empires collapse one by one. Strong nationalist leaders who were also Muslims, like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, rose to power; by the early '60s there was a belt of independent, predominantly Islamic states stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. For Muslims of the Middle East, one event in the past decade stands out as a modern landmark in the history of the faith. On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 1973, the cry of "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great...
...estimated to be between 100 and 200, many of them civilians. Few officials held out much prospect that the government delegation would be able to achieve anything except a fragile ceasefire. Moreover, any hint of compromise on autonomy for the Kurds could raise the hopes of other dissident nationalist minorities-Azerbaijanis, Turkomans, the Arabs of the vital oilfields in Khuzestan, and even the Baluchis in the far southeast...
Ironically, the war has expanded since the internal settlement was signed in March 1978. At that time Smith's black nationalist colleagues promised that it would end within weeks. Military and civilian casualties have mounted from 13 a day then to nearly 50 a day now. Last week, for the first time, a park area in Salisbury itself was under a dusk-to-dawn curfew. In the eastern highlands on the Mozambique border, fleeing white farmers have abandoned some 160,000 acres of farm land, or about 10% of the acreage under cultivation; the 6,500 who remain tend...
With Scottish pride still bruised following the inconclusive "devolution" referendum to give the region more autonomy, Scotsmen were rallying to save little lona; Scottish Nationalist M.P. Iain McCormick, representing Argyll, called for the government...
...extreme, China never has had much use for formal litigation and lawyers. Ever since Confucius, the Chinese have valued collective harmony over the assertion of individual rights and the adversary system now characteristic of American justice. Lawyers did not practice privately in China until after the 1911 Nationalist revolution, because laws banned the "fomenting" of litigation, lest it disturb the smooth fabric of Confucian society. "It is better to enter a tiger's mouth than a court of law," goes another Chinese proverb...