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...governments all filed stiff diplomatic protests with the Chinese foreign ministry. Not sparing the few non-Communists in Peking, Red Guards also forced a French diplomat to stand for seven hours in Peking's freezing cold. Abroad, Chinese students and technicians demonstrated against the Soviet Union in Cambodia, Tunisia, Britain, Yugoslavia, Iraq and North Viet Nam. Typical of the venom that now marks Sino-Soviet relations was the chant of Chinese students outside the Baghdad embassy of the Soviet Union: "Hang the bastard Brezhnev...
...want high pumping quotas as insurance against competition from new oil sources being developed in areas closer to world markets. By year's end Libya will pass Iraq in production, rank fourth in the Middle East (after Saudi Arabia, Kuwait ,and Iran). Algerian production is growing and tiny Tunisia became an exporter for the first time this year. Before long, Egypt will be in the market, thanks to a Phillips Petroleum strike near El Alamein announced last week...
Although Moslem women in such countries as Tunisia and Lebanon are clamoring for equality, Scholar-Sheik Abu Zahara defended the double-standard system of polygamy on the ground that "it has put a limit to the chaotic side of social life." He also upheld the essential humanity of such traditional Arab punishments as cutting off the hands of thieves and flogging adulterers. The pain is acute and the experience humiliating, the Sheik admitted, but it does not last as long as the Western way of punishment, imprisonment...
Traveling Salesman. That prospect is anathema to Saudi Arabia's monarch, King Feisal, the ruler of the largest and richest of the moderate Arab nations. Last week Feisal wound up a 28-day, five-nation tour in President Habib Bourguiba's Tunisia-his latest trip in ten months to promote his projected Islamic summit meeting in Mecca. While
...Line-Up. In such a showdown, Nasser could count on Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Sallal's part of Yemen-all more or less socialist, Soviet-armed regimes. Feisal would have on his side Western-equipped Jordan, Bahrain, the tiny sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, and perhaps Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Non-Arab Iran, whose Shah despises Nasser, would probably aid Feisal enthusiastically. Anxious to remain neutral are Lebanon, Libya and the Sudan. But it may never come to a showdown. The meeting around a fire...