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...court with a new judge convened for the 21st session of the case. But the Moslem faithful had waited for justice long enough. They stormed from the court into the mosque grounds, drove out the Reds and tore down most of the Red decorations with their bare hands. Even Allah seemed to be taking a hand in the matter: the Red lawyer was killed by a train when his taxi stalled on a railroad crossing. At long last the Indonesian court ruled hastily that Pak Murah and his Communists must vacate the premises forthwith. The Reds promptly filed an appeal...
...Tanganyika, on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, Aga Khan IV was acclaimed in the first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia. The sun blazed down, and after some 20,000 faithful chanted "Allah Akbar," the young Aga received a signet ring, a robe of many colors, a golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million...
...bloody bombing attacks of cafés and streets that have kept Algiers' French edgy for months. Often spotted by the French, Yacef evaded them with such ease and regularity that his fellow Moslems came to believe that he had baraka, the gift of good fortune that Allah bestows on a favored...
...well off. The public was provincial: once, after a performance of Pelleas et Melisande, a crowd demanded refunds because it had expected a double feature such as Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana. The company had its share of low-comedy disasters : one performance of an extravaganza titled The Garden of Allah was broken up by the terrified screech of a diva whose bare back was being licked by a camel imported for the production. Most important, Impresario Russell had a way of juggling his bookkeeping and pressing his stars for salary kickbacks. After its fifth season, the company collapsed...
...recreation has no place in the ascetic life of the religious institute. In this austere atmosphere, one day last month, a terrifying thing happened. "Who knows what it is all about?" sighed Salahiah's President Haji Hashim bin Haji in despair. "Perhaps it is the will of Allah...