Word: ramadan
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Last week, open war continued between Israeli forces and Palestinian fedayeen, with P.L.O. raids and rocket attacks against Israel and retaliatory raids on Palestinian camps in Lebanon by Israeli commandos. But on the Sinai front, as the new moon of Ramadan appeared last week for Moslems, and Jews once more observed the start of the High Holy Days, all was peaceful. Two years ago when those religious events coincided, Israel was suddenly embroiled in the most costly war in its short history...
...prince, but his six sons have been sent to schools in Europe and the U.S. Unlike Faisal, Fahd has a weakness for certain Western luxuries; he drew criticism from conservative Saudis when he spent five months vacationing in Europe last year, staying there even through the holy month of Ramadan. Still, he is unlikely to loosen up the country's rigid Islamic ways abruptly...
...seven-day journey of mediation through the Middle East, his sixth such trek in the past two years. Kissinger reached Cairo on the first leg of his flight to seven capitals (the others: Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem, Riyadh, Algiers and finally Rabat) during the Moslem penitential month of Ramadan. The Secretary of State was unable to meet with fasting President Anwar Sadat until after sundown; Kissinger thus had to while away several hours sightseeing. As he flew out of Cairo, a Secret Service agent's submachine gun-an Israeli-made Uzi-fell from a luggage rack aboard Kissinger...
...Moslem observance of the month of fasting called Ramadan coincided with Yom Kippur, Judaism's most sacred day. So did the start of the October war. This year Ramadan coincided with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year's Day. There was no recurrence of open warfare, but Israeli jets did attack villages in the mountainous border region of southern Lebanon known as the Arqub. Since 1969, this area, which fans out from the slopes of Mount Hermon, has been known as "Fatahland" because Palestinian guerrillas regularly cross it from havens in Syria to infiltrate the Israeli border...
...contrast, Gaddafi, 31, is a fundamentalist Moslem zealot, who scrupulously observes the Ramadan fast. Since coming to power in a 1969 coup, he has revived such early Islamic practices as amputating the hands of thieves and the public stoning of adulterers. He has made it illegal for foreigners as well as Libyans to drink liquor. The most consistently bellicose of Arab leaders, he has urged a holy war to exterminate Israel...