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After his trip to Cairo for the January "Arab summit meeting" of heads of anti-Israel states, Saud spent weeks politicking at home with the help of several sons and campaign photos of himself embracing Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he had once plotted to assassinate. Fortnight ago, thinking that he had rebuilt his prestige, King Saud decreed Feisal's resignation...
...limits. The choice of Unterman and Nissim means that many of the religious strictures so galling to nonobservant Jews will continue. Telegraph service is curtailed on the Sabbath (Saturday) and on religious holidays, and in most cities and towns there is no public transportation. Except for a few Christian Arab areas, pork products are not for sale, although nonkosher shrimp is available. El Al airlines does not originate or terminate flights in Israel on Saturdays or religious holidays, and its galleys may serve only kosher food, a puzzlement to Gentile passengers, who find they must drink their coffee black after...
Next on Karume's agenda was land reform, a basic concern of any African revolutionary leader. Last week, Karume announced that the huge, Arab-owned clove and coconut plantations on the main island would be "reallocated." Also nationalized were the shops and houses of Stone Town, from the tops of their Moorish-styled roofs to their brass-studded mahogany doors. All of this could only please the black majority on whom Karume bases his popularity. Equally pleasing was his crackdown on those bastions of squash and snobbery, the clubs. Visiting British Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys was sipping...
...approached Zanzibar one day last week, a message flashed ahead: "It is I, the field marshal, who comes. Have my army and the press waiting." Zanzi-baris could not fail to recognize the unique style of John Okello, the messianic Ugandan house-painter-turned-revolutionary whose bloody anti-Arab coup put Zanzibar's black Afro-Shirazi Party in power two months ago. But all that awaited Field Marshal Okello was rejection...
...With the oddest man in the Zanzibar revolutionary triumvirate out of the way, President Karume and his Peking-leaning Foreign Minister. Abdul Rahman Mohamed ("Babu"), were free to forge ahead with reforms. Their first target: the "degrading" rickshas that plied the narrow streets of Stone Town, Zanzibar's Arab and Indian quarter. "No longer will men work as animals on Zanzibar" Karume declared, personally putting the torch to a pile of gasoline-soaked rickshas. To avoid political backfire, he promised the owners $280 each in compensation...