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Reclusive and ramrod-rigid, Jadid has yet to make a major public pronouncement since taking power; indeed, he ranks on the Baathist books as a mere deputy secretary-general of the party. Jadid belongs to the minority Alawite sect of Syrian Mohammedanism, which represents only 10% of the population, and fears that the Sunnite majority-a more orthodox sect-might rebel if he became too publicly outspoken. Actually, he need not say much: the statements of his peers are sufficiently intemperate to embrace his views. Says Premier Zayyen in tones ominously Pekingese: "We are crushing all parasite and opportunist elements...
...story of the tournament, photographed in color by 117 cameras, is now told in a two-hour movie that might with equal aptness be considered a sports film or a war documentary. As a sports film, it will principally appeal to the soccer sect-a rapidly enlarging minority in the U.S., where two twelve-team "major leagues" are currently being organized. As a war documentary, it will command the empathy of any spectator still animal enough to admire the aspect of men in sudden, intricate, continuous, beautiful and aggressive movement. Indeed, it might safely be said that Goal! will provide...
...before he went into exile in 1954. Cold-shouldered by De Gaulle (the government no longer subsidizes him), Bao Dai is the guest of a count in Lorraine, spends his time hunting or visiting his concubine in Paris. General Le Van Vien, ex-chief of the notorious Binh Xuyen sect and a former Saigon vice lord, lives in retirement in a mansion outside Paris...
...public demonstrations for encouraging pressure groups to bully the government. When the goldsmiths took to the streets last August to protest against government control of the gold content in jewelry, Indira caved in and relaxed official supervision. Similarly, last week she gave in to the demands of a Hindu sect that cow slaughter be banned by announcing that the government intends to proscribe the killing of cows in those areas of India directly administered by the federal government...
...Adventist men over age 30. Among the 850 deaths, only nine were due to lung cancer, whereas 56 such deaths would have been predicted from statewide aver ages. Furthermore, none of the nine who had been killed by lung cancer had been a lifelong Adventist-all had joined the sect after years of smoking. Drs. Lemon and Walden have yet to find a single case of typical lung cancer in an Adventist who never smoked...