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...source of 80% of the world's cloves, tiny, palm-wreathed Zanzibar off the coast of Tanganyika was long ruled by Arab sultans, who imported slaves from the mainland to cultivate the spice trees. When the British took over in 1890, they left the current Sultan with his title and his ceremonial peacocks. But 70 years later, as Britain moved to give Zanzibar self government, the ancient hatreds between African slaves and Arab masters have brought savage division to somnolent Zanzibar...
...subjects are Palestinian refugees who hold no love for the desert-born Hashemite dynasty. Half a million live in filthy camps and are grimly called "the King's immortal guests" because, to get more food rations, they register births but never admit to any deaths. They are fierce Arab nationalists, who tune in on Cairo's Voice of the Arabs and can stage a nasty riot. Last week Hussein risked their displeasure and defied his own royal relatives by taking a British bride...
Nobody could be sure what the Amman crowds were really thinking or how they would react to an anti-Toni campaign from Cairo. But Hussein had been engaged on what he calls "a policy of rapprochement with the Arab world," and, along with a golden bowl from the Kennedys and a silver tea service from Queen Elizabeth II, he got an important present from Nasser: Cairo radio said not a critical word about the marriage...
...Yale, where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News and magna cum laude in English in 1957. Among his early assignments were short stints in our London and Paris bureaus, where his most memorable assignment was the 1958 Algerian generals' revolt, during which a rifle-bearing Arab shot at him. He now regards that experience as casual...
Zanzibar, to the north, is like neither Madagascar nor Tanganyika. Once the major headquarters for Arab slavers, it is a lady island, pungent with the odor of cloves and the glamour of Araby. Tourists can ride the streets in dilapidated rickshas, visit the old Arab waterfront fort and the harbor, where old wooden dhows with odd-looking lateen sails load up for trips to the mainland. They can buy French perfumes, Indian craft jewelry, or copies of the famed, huge oaken "elephant doors," which are covered with spikes to keep elephants from leaning on them. They are an unusual curio...