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...monarchy will be replaced by a democratic system with an elected legislature; religious leaders will probably have some kind of veto power over prospective laws. The success of the yearlong Iranian revolution, which ousted a dynastic autocrat who dreamed of turning his country into a Western-style industrial and secular state, was hailed as "a new dawn for the Islamic people," in the words of one Kuwait newspaper. Palestinian fedayeen poured into the streets of Beirut to celebrate the victory by firing AK-47s into the air. In the Sudan, militant Muslims opposed to their government's alignment with Egypt...
...Middle East peace. Peace will not be realized unless the Palestinian people have been returned to Palestine and Arab unity has been reestablished. That means that all foreigners must leave Palestine and return to their countries of origin. Only Palestinian Jews should stay in Palestine, as citizens of a secular state where they would live with Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Christians. Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression...
Though the trial began after midnight, about 200 members of the "general public" crammed into the small, whitewashed room. Hoveida sat on a chair in front of the court, which consisted of a mullah and two Iranian judges from the now disbanded secular courts. Composed but groggy because he had taken a sleeping pill earlier, Hoveida looked around in amazement and said he had been promised an afternoon session. The presiding judge replied: "Day or night makes no difference, because this is a revolutionary court...
...Komiteh's militia, the so-called Islamic Guard, will be melded into a secular national guard commanded by a council headed by Deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, Khomeini's most ardent backer in the Bazargan government...
...reputation swiftly diminished, and Camus's tone of stoicism and forbearance was swallowed in the crowd noises of the '60s. Only now has the canon been appraised as a coherent statement about the possibilities of secular salvation. One sentence in The Fall, Camus's last published novel, sums up a life and a work: "Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every...