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...Nimeiri to adopt the strict Islamic law that mandated punishments like amputating the hands of thieves. The party and its charismatic leader, Hassan al Turabi, 53, still have a large constituency among the poor and the young. But analysts predict that the Umma Party, lead by former Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi, 50, the great-grandson of the revered leader whose forces defeated British General Charles Gordon at Khartoum in 1885, will emerge as the main force in a new governing coalition...
...Crimson article stated that Ataullah Sadiq, the exiled Afghan student, recounted scenes of the Soviet invasion in his village. But what were those scenes? Ataullah talked about a 15-year-old friend of his who stood up in front of a crowd of students and spoke against the Soviet invasion. Ataullah's friend was shot before he could finish. The boy's body was then carried to his home, where, Ataullah recounted, his friend's mother reacted by saying that "We should all die like this...
...visit to Jerusalem and the Camp David accords, but that stand is not universally popular. Despite a policy of reconciliation aimed at ending the intrigues and coups that have plagued the Sudan since it became independent in 1956, Nimeiri still faces opposition from the National Front led by Anwar Sadiq al-Mahdi, who advocates an Islamic state like neighboring Libya. If Sadat were to fall from power, Nimeiri almost certainly would as well...
Last week Kashmir's new Prime Minister, Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq, announced that Sheik Abdullah, 58, would be released and that all political conspiracy charges against him had been dropped. Sadiq's move, aimed at easing religious and political tensions in the state, caught New Delhi unawares. Nehru's deputy and heir apparent, Lai Bahadur Shastri, could only stammer in answer to questions in Parliament that "as far as we know, it will be an unconditional release...
...international flavor of mission work was aptly personalized at a meeting of the council's Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. More than 200 churchmen from 62 church bodies and 48 countries showed up to discuss the problems facing the spread of Christianity. Anglican Bishop John Sadiq summed up one of them: "Old non-Christian faiths have become renascent." M. M. Thomas of India pointed out another: a "secular ecumenism" that finds its focus not in Christ but in the brotherhood...