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...Moon Epic last week agreed that his "orchestral rhapsody'' fell short of the billing. Composer Saminsky had written it for Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, on a special commission from the League of Composers. He divided it into two parts: "Sick of the Snow, the Shia Seed'' and "Call of the Wind; Highward Ho." Into these movements he worked tribal tunes, war cries, corn & moon dances of Indians in the Southwest. Listeners enjoyed its orchestral color and primitive drummings, but disliked its lack of coherence...
...divided into five territories: Damascus, Aleppo, Alaquite, Great Lebanon and the Jebel-ed-Druz. The first three make up the Syrian Federation, of 'which Damascus is the capital. The religious picture is somewhat blurred, but there are roughly about 1% million Sunni Moslems, and 100,000 each of Shia Moslems and Druses in the territory, together with some thousands of Christian converts...
Wahabis. With an increasingly jealous eye, the Emir of Nejd and Hasa viewed the opportunist power of his enemy, Husein, grow like an orchid upon the air. The brow of the beturbaned giant with the coal-black beard became furrowed with anger at the irreligion of the Shia and Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword...