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Last year the parliament passed legislation requiring virtually all social and political organizations to adopt a secular state ideology known as Pancasila, a set of five principles calling for belief in one God, justice, national unity, democracy and humanitarianism. The law was designed to muffle nearly all dissent in the...
The Reagan Doctrine holds that the U.S. should bypass nervous and sometimes unreliable foreign friends in order to harass and, if possible, overthrow Moscow's clients in the Third World. SDI, as originally conceived by Reagan in 1983, was a deus ex machina of global unilateralism: a made-in-the...
Over the years, Gaddafi has become his own best public relations agent, a master at dropping homey personal details to Western reporters, making himself appear as a humble man of the desert. But there is a pride in his modesty and a kind of repressed cupidity in his abstinence. He...
In the next four weeks, before Pakistanis begin to observe Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, Bhutto and her party plan regular mass rallies that some P.P.P. leaders hope will spark what they call "street politics"-- marches, riots and general strikes that might cause enough chaos to force Zia to...
While some segments of the middle class chafe under their restrictions, the kingdom's religious leaders constantly call for closer adherence to puritanical Islamic rules. Many of their strictures are directed at women. One recent decree banned them from riding alone in taxis or hotel limousines. In Riyadh and Jidda...