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...from country to country and person to person. Nonetheless, to the average Muslim, his faith is much more in evidence in everyday life than is Christianity to people in most Western lands. On Fridays, the Muslim sabbath, life comes to a halt in the factories, the marketplaces and the public squares. Men assemble their prayer rugs near an amplified sound system if there is no time or inclination to go inside a mosque; women frequently pray at home. Others perform the required ablutions and pray wherever they happen to be. A tennis pro in white shorts will place his racquet...
...sham autonomy. One key issue is whether the self-governing councils to be set up for the West Bank and Gaza will have control over land and water. That would give the Arab residents the authority to curb Israeli settlements and the right to drill for water on public land, something that has been largely denied them since the Israeli occupation began in 1967. Predicts one U.S. analyst: "If the self-governing authority that is decided on is a real one-not just the dog catchers and the garbage collectors-then the people in the area will get involved. They...
Whatever the merits of the President's windfall tax proposal, his jabs at the "already large profits" of the petroleum industry were designed to appeal to the public's deep suspicions that oil earnings are particularly bloated. The grumbling is sure to increase over the next few weeks as the companies begin announcing their first-quarter earnings. They will probably show increases on the order of 20% to 40% or more over the first quarter of 1978. Reason: oil inventories acquired months ago are becoming more valuable as OPEC continues to push up prices...
...shares), but also pension funds, banks, universities and other institutions. In effect, these institutions manage the money of millions of ordinary wage earners-the very people, in fact, whom Carter now urges to rise up and keep the oil firms from having an excuse "to cheat the public and to damage the nation...
...Diebold's sessions corporate chiefs study the successes of other businesses in dealing with public issues and outside pressures. They look at the case of the food companies that set up the Food Safety Council, enlisted the help of a ranking aide to Ralph Nader and now mutually work to agree on a list of food products and additives that everybody could consider safe-before going to the great trouble and expense of putting them on the market. Diebold also has his clients study the National Coal Policy Project. Companies that mine and use coal formed it with environmental...