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Other articles of the draft constitution which is virtually certain to be adopted by popular referendum after the Assembly of Experts is finished scrutinizing it are intended to Islamize all aspects of social life. Article 22, for example, would make Arabic, the language of the Koran, compulsory in all secondary schools...
...traces of secularism will be removed from the draft constitution," says a member of Khomeini's secretive Islamic Revolutionary Council. "We cannot do otherwise without violating our popular mandate...
Secular opposition to the new constitution has been feeble and ineffective. A small group of dissenting Experts, discreetly supported outside the Assembly by Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari-after Khomeini, the second most popular Ayatullah in Iran-gingerly tried to revise Article 5 on legal grounds in order to ensure the sovereignty of the electorate; the Assembly majority ignored the plea. In the country at large, however, Asian and Western diplomats believe they discern more significant pockets of brewing resistance...
...buying can be traced to three sources. Demand from the Middle East remains strong, he says, not only from OPEC governments eager to protect their oil profits from U.S. inflation and the decline of the dollar, but also from peasants and small traders for whom gold remains the most popular portable security. Demand from Europe is accelerating because inflation there is rising. Bullion fever has now spread to Switzerland, reflecting fears about inflation even in that land of granite-hard currency...
...most visible demand for gold is coming from the U.S. Newspaper ads urge readers to bring their gold heirlooms in to dealers; panning for gold along rivers is again a popular hobby, and old gold mines are being reopened. In Atlanta, dentists report that patients are asking for the return of their gold inlays after they have been replaced with crowns. Large crowds and ever ringing phones are making the normally sedate quarters of bullion dealers look like bookie joints...