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Though government aid accounts for only 2% of the underdeveloped world's income, its influence is often decisive. Aid finances perhaps 10% of the total investment in third-world countries; in countries such as Pakistan, Jordan, Korea, India and Tunisia, it provides as much as half...
...leftists put it, between the "free Arabs" and the "kept Arabs." Now there are eight left-leaning states (Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Sudan, the two Yemens and Libya), and six conservative governments that accept Western support and admit Western influence (the three kingdoms, plus Lebanon, Kuwait and Tunisia...
...newest and the oldest Christians in the world. In Egypt, Alexandria had a colony of Christians at the time of the Apostles, and it became a prominent center of early Christian scholarship. The great 4th century church father, St. Augustine, was bishop of Hippo in what is now Tunisia. Yet North African Christianity was virtually erased by the massive Moslem invasions that swept across the northern part of the continent in the 7th and 8th centuries; only the churches of Ethiopia and Egypt survived. Even today, Islam remains the largest religion in Africa, claiming almost one-third of the continent...
...Beirut's Jewish community. "Why should I go to Israel?" a Jewish real estate dealer asks. "Those people in Israel are practically Socialists, you know." Morocco's 50,000 Jews get along reasonably well with the government; emigration is permitted, and persecution is all but nonexistent. Tunisia's 10,000 Jews live quietly. There are only about 1,000 Jews in Algeria, and despite the government's intransigent views on Israel, they are not persecuted. In Saudi Arabia and Jordan, there is no danger of repression: all Jews have left...
...vacation villages reflect the fact that Mediterranee, which once appealed mostly to secretaries and young marrieds, has lately been attracting affluent, middle-aged vacationers as well. Within the next year Blitz, 56, still the club's chief, plans to open both an inexpensive "family village" in Tunisia and a costlier, more comfortable resort on Martinique. Last month the club, which was founded mainly to provide Frenchmen with vacations abroad, came full circle. It agreed to manage four new vacation resorts for the French government. French tourism declined by more than 10% in 1968, and officials want...