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...Pray to Allah. There were suggestions that the relief operation was delayed by indifference to the fate of East Pakistanis among government officials in the capital, Islamabad, which is situated far away in the western part of the segmented nation. Bureaucratic truculence also helped. The government insisted for several days that helicopters offered by the U.S., Britain and other nations be flown by Pakistani pilots. West Germany's offer of a fully manned 150-bed field hospital simply went unanswered; the Pakistanis later explained lamely that they would have been unable to feed the German doctors and nurses. Ordinary...
...past, many islanders have dreamed of building sea walls, but such vast undertakings have always been put aside as impracticable. "We can control the flood," said Pakistan's President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan last week, "but what can we do against the cyclone? We can only pray to Allah for mercy...
...Black Muslims await Allah's destruction of the white devil but the Republic of New Africa and others are plunging into the revolutionary struggle. The first shoots of Afro-Islamic law are appearing in drafts of Black Laws and in emerging bleak courts. I have observed some of these beginnings from the inside and I estimate the potential to be comparable to the dreams of the early Zionists...
...dusty musabilah, or market town, when King Abdullah, Hussein's grandfather, made it the capital of his new kingdom in 1921. Most of the country's Bedouins roamed Transjordan's eastern deserts, proud and hawklike men who scorned as inferiors the Arabs in cities. Allah made the Bedouin and the camel, they were wont to say, and then Allah made the town Arab out of the camel's droppings...
...thousand and one years had never seen such a spectacle. The mourners waited on the bank of the Nile, 200 deep in some places; they hung from trees and lampposts and fragile scaffolds, and they pressed against a wall of police 14 men thick. "There is no God but Allah, and Nasser is God's beloved," they chanted. "Nasser is not dead. Each of us is Nasser...