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Once every year the Fellata quarter of Port Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea, fills up with Arab pilgrims. Their objective: to reach the Holy Land before the start of Ramadan (May 15, this year), and to visit Mecca. They come from all parts of Africa, crossing from one country to another without trouble-until they hit Port Sudan...
Back in the. Fellata there are men who whisper to him that these regulations are made by infidel foreigners. For payment of ?5 ($14), these men offer to get the pilgrim across the Red Sea without any trouble. For years sharp Arab operators have lived off this illegal traffic, and how many hundreds of pilgrims have died as a result, no one will ever know...
...They shouted and waved, but the launch passed them. In despair an old woman fell off the tower into the sea. Hours later the launch reappeared, going the other way. This time its crew spotted the castaways. As the launch hove to just off the reef, one of its Arab crewmen swam to the tower with a line and, one by one, the 14 Nigerians were pulled in. Among the rescued were four women, a four-year-old boy and a baby in arms, but boy and baby soon died...
...operations. But the National Salvation Army was beginning to be embarrassing to all concerned. Burma, in a curtly polite note, thanked the U.S. for its $31 million aid program and declined to accept further aid. There was talk of a Russian aid program to Burma. In the U.N., the Arab-Asian bloc (with the single exception of the Philippines) agreed to support Burma's case...
...Krishna Menon, head of the Indian delegation at the U.N. General Assembly, and Dr. Karim Azkoul, chairman of the Lebanese delegation. Menon is scheduled to talk on "U.N. Outlook--1953" at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Sunday afternoon Azkoul will discuss "The Tendency Toward Neutrality of the Asian-Arab Bloc...