Word: sahara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East, there are 2.5 million Palestinians who still mourn for the vanished orange groves of Jaffa, which many have never seen. Throughout Africa there are perhaps 3 million refugees. They include victims of the civil war in Rhodesia, nomads in Algeria displaced by fighting in the western Sahara and countless thousands uprooted by Ethiopia's struggle against insurrection in Eritrea and the Ogaden desert. No war anywhere is without its innocent victims; at least 200,000 have been rendered homeless by the fighting in Nicaragua (see following story...
...Johnson, who wrote the main cover story, because "the Iranian revolution has made it especially important for Westerners to understand the driving energy and devotion Islam commands from so many." Correspondent Dean Brelis was given a vivid example of that devotion when he visited a Bedouin village in the Sahara for this week's story. Reports Brelis: "An elderly Bedouin invited me to his home and showed me a bright turquoise-blue wall that was covered with primitive but happy paintings that depicted a ship loaded with people, and then a dark cube surrounded by birds and flowers...
...prayers. An airline steward will spread out a towel in the corridor of a plane to pray. Workers in the fields will remove their boots at noon and kneel on pieces of cardboard. Mahmoud Hassan Sharaf, 76, a Bedouin who lives on the edge of the Sahara, explains the peace he finds in prayer: "If I don't pray my heart is angry. When I pray my heart is still...
...Byzantine, spreading the faith through Northern Africa into Spain, and through the Middle East to the Indus River. From there, devout Arab traders later carried their faith to Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. Other traders introduced the Koran to black tribes of Africa that lived south of the Sahara Desert...
...fact, the media coverage in the early 1970s was sparked, not so much by the Sahelian famine along the southern rim of the Sahara, as by a huge purchase of U.S. grain by Russia. As Nick Eberstadt of Harvard's Center for Population Studies noted in the New York Review of Books, Feb. 19, 1976, "India could never have made this kind of purchase: it would have cost 3 per cent of its gross national product, almost 25 per cent of its annual government revenue...