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...wave of anti-American violence continued to sweep through the Muslim world. Two weeks ago, there were mob attacks on American outposts from Turkey to Bangladesh and the burning of the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. Last week there were more demonstrations, in Thailand, the Philippines and Kuwait; on Sunday, 2,000 rioting Libyans assaulted the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, but there were no American casualties...
...eruptions have also prompted a question among startled Americans: Why do the world's Muslims seem to harbor such hostility for the U.S.? As President Carter said at his press conference last week, "We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all those who share the Muslim faith." The explanation for the anger cannot be strictly historical. While Iranian resentment over Washington's longtime links with the Shah is understandable, the U.S. never colonized Islamic lands as did, for example, France and Britain, nor does the U.S. have an appreciable Muslim minority, as does the Soviet...
Whatever the reasons for the general phenomenon, there were lingering, legitimate fears in Washington that anti-U.S. riots could occur again, as long as the confrontation with Iran remained at flashpoint. Accordingly, the State Department last week called for the departure of all nonessential personnel and dependents among the 1,200 Americans based in elev en Muslim countries and officially discouraged Americans from traveling to them. A similar order had been issued earlier for Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan...
Mohammed al-Quraishi's eyes burned with ambition. He was 26 and for six months he had studied theology in Mecca; he said that the Islamic revolt in Iran heralded a new dawn. Two weeks ago, he and his followers seized the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. It is Islam's holiest of holy places, since it contains the Kaba, a cube-shaped structure that is believed to have been built by Abraham in God's honor. Last week the siege was lifted after eight days of fighting; but the assault had shaken the Islamic world and rocked...
After all the oversized headlines and gossip-column innuendoes, it looked as if Hamilton Jordan, 35, President Carter's top aide, had managed to ride out the storm. But last week, seven weeks after the FBI submitted its preliminary findings U.S. Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti recommended that a special prosecutor be appointed to look further into allegations that Jordan had snorted cocaine. Soon afterward, the Department of Justice announced that New York City Attorney Arthur H. Christy, 56, a Republican, had been appointed to the position by a special federal court...