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But his messianic vision, like the turbans in which he wraps himself, does not camouflage his vicious methods and his ruthless fanaticism. He believes his own erratic ends are justified by any means, however bloody. He has become the modern-day incarnation of the Society of Assassins, which flourished from...
In 1973 Gaddafi announced what he called his Popular Revolution, designed to eradicate all forms of the nation's bourgeoisie and bureaucracy. His revolution was based on three slender volumes of his own self-taught philosophy titled The Green Book, Gaddafi's equivalent of Mao's Little Red Book. The...
MIDDLE EAST. Although Saudi Arabia remains wealthy by any standard, it is by no means immune to the impact of cheap oil. Government spending, the engine that drives the country's economy, has fallen from a high of $92.7 billion in fiscal 1982 to $54.8 billion in the current year...
Tough talk like that demonstrates the ominous desperation of regimes suffering from dried-up oil dreams. Says Hormats: "The geopolitical impact of the oil-price collapse is immense and unpredictable." A Bank of America report issued last week predicts that average inflation in the Middle East will jump from 28...
Most of the major Sudanese parties profess nonalignment with the superpowers and avow unity within the Arab world. The leading contenders in the elections, the Umma Party and the Democratic Unionist Party, share traditional religious roots. Neither, however, is as militant as the National Islamic Front, which pushed Nimeiri to...