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Iran remains a precarious outpost. The bloody July revolution in neighboring Iraq sent an apprehensive shudder through Iran's top thousand families and made them more receptive to the Shah's reforms. Though Iran is a Moslem nation, its people are not Arab, and the Shah is thus insulated from the Nasser virus. The Soviet Union, through pudgy Ambassador Nikolai Pegov, has lately purred friendship and slyly supported Iran's claim to Britain's oil-rich Bahrein Island. The Soviet Union sent its dancers and acrobats, sponsored joint Russian-Iranian projects such as locust control...
When election day finally came, 60 delegates assembled in the Grand Hall of the Patriarchate-archbishops in long beards and flowing black robes, city dwellers from Beirut and Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly...
...allowed to make a defense speech against a hodgepodge of charges that ranged from "insulting Nasser" to "squandering public money on plots inspired by the imperialists," to "failing to be anti-Jewish" (a marked absurdity to those who remembered his ability in the U.N. to match any other Arab in anti-Israeli invective). With dignity and courage, Jamali said he had favored Arab unity but not under Nasser, nor by Nasser's sleazy methods. Jamali had supported Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact because he saw only two possibilities for a modern state, either "strength or alliance...
...live Hussein!" and "Hussein, we are your men!" Grateful citizens carried Hussein on their shoulders. Premier Samir Rifai informed the U.N. representative in Amman, Pier P. Spinelli, that the government intended to protest Syria's behavior to the U.N. Security Council. Jordan demanded an immediate meeting of the Arab League Council to take action. U.A.R. officials replied that Hussein's plane had been crossing Syria without proper clearance and had been intercepted by its MIGs in a routine and perfectly legal manner. Cairo newspapers ridiculed what they called "Hussein's heroics" and claimed his report of events...
...bitter truth and at his worst dismisses humanity with a sardonic jeer. Lucien is a lieutenant who commands an oasis outpost in French North Africa. He is not much of a man and not much of a soldier, and boring desert duty with a handful of French and Arab troops is just what is needed to show him up all the way. The catalytic agent that calls his variety of weaknesses into play is an affair with Ramie, an adolescent Arab girl who becomes Auligny's obsession. Loving her, he begins to think that he loves the Arabs...