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Faisal has become the most important Arab leader in modern times. He symbolizes the glorious era of the Arabs when the legendary Saladin, Haroun al-Rashid and Tariq ben Ziyad were so linked with the history of the West...
...Sultan and 21 dispensaries are being established. Qabus intends to apply for membership in both the Arab League and the U.N. He also hopes to blunt the rebel movement by means of his improvements and by offering amnesty to the estimated 700 guerrillas. He has called his uncle, Tariq ben Taimur, home from voluntary exile to become Prime Minister...
West Berlin's Republican Club, a New Left citadel, charged that "the concept of proletarian internationalism has been subordinated by the top leadership of the Soviet Union to a strategy of stabilizing and maintaining their own dominant position." Says Tariq Ali, the Oxford-educated Pakistani who leads Britain's New Left: "What has been made clear in Czechoslovakia is that Marxist concepts are not being applied in the Soviet Union. If Moscow felt the need to intervene somewhere, it should have been in Viet...
...tung, Ho Chi Minh, and French Marxist Régis Debray, a captured member of Che's Bolivian guerrilla band now serving a 30-year prison sentence. "I can't think of a revolutionary in the last century who had his romantic appeal," says Tariq Ali, 24, Pakistani-born leader of London's anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...
Blimpish Bark. Last week the Union debated the same resolution (now, of course, "for Queen and Country"), and the storm was almost as violent. The man responsible was Tariq Ali, 21, a publicity-happy Pakistani studying at Oxford's Exeter College, who as president of the Union selects the topic of its weekly debates. His choice won him threats from Britain's fledgling Ku Klux Klan ("Watch out, you dirty wog"), four television appearances (worth $56), and 18 newspaper interviews. Letters poured in to editors, who responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise...