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Elsewhere in Islam, some pillars of the faith are crumbling. In Algeria and Tunisia, few town dwellers bother to stop work or play for the five-time ritual of daily prayer. In the cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...
...Arab envoys in Bonn packed their bags to come home, following an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo that had reached only limited agreement on a proposal to break diplomatic ties with West Germany. Ten Arab nations agreed to withdraw ambassadors from Bonn, but Morocco, Tunisia and Libya (which annually sells Bonn 35% of its oil output, or $245 million worth) refused to go even that far. Most of the foreign ministers were frankly appalled at Nasser's call for recognition of East Germany and an economic boycott of West German goods. "If Nasser expects...
...well known, when it comes to unity, the Arabs are long on words and short on deeds. Hardly had Egypt's leader spoken than Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba made it clear that his country would not go along with extreme measures against the West Germans. And Morocco's King Hassan II, in Cairo for a state visit, did not even mention the German problem in his speech at an official dinner. Fact was, all the Arab states were probably willing to withdraw their ambassadors from Bonn, but many were reluctant to go much farther. Only...
...25th Hour. General Westmoreland, a brilliant "book" soldier, has been learning that lesson since he reached Saigon in August. A lean, greying six-footer, "Westy" was first captain of cadets at West Point (1936), saw World War II combat in Tunisia, Sicily, at Utah Beach on Dday. During the Korean War, he led the tough 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. A bird colonel at 30, he became the youngest major general in the Army in 1956. Max Taylor, the Army's Chief of Staff, pinned his second star on him. As superintendent of West Point, Westmoreland helped...
...million for that purpose, pledged that the money would be "concentrated where it will contribute to lasting progress." About $507 million would go to the seven countries that have best helped themselves under U.S. aid and have avoided expenditures on "unnecessary armaments and foreign adventures": India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Brazil and Chile. To underwrite loans and grants for the Alliance for Progress, Johnson asked for $580 million this year-$70 million more than Congress appropriated in 1964. To justify the increase, the President cited convincing statistics to show that the "governments and people of Latin America are accepting increasing...