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"Sort of a diplomatic minuet" was Edmund Muskie's prediction about his first encounter as Secretary of State with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. But by the time the two finally met last week, the drum beats and trumpet calls from the capitals of the world had turned into...
During his rambling, four-hour speech Sadat talked at length about strife between Egypt's 2.5 million Coptic Christian minority and Muslim fundamentalists, which has grown more strident with the rise of Islamic militancy. He announced a ban on ecclesiastical groups that "seek to spread political dissension," an obvious...
The assault was indeed a measure of last resort, undertaken after attempts to negotiate the release of the hostages had failed repeatedly. The gunmen who had seized the embassy at Princes Gate, in the fashionable Kensington district of London, were bitterly opposed to the regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
In Washington, Saudi Ambassador Faisal Alhegelan sent a letter to Acting Secretary of State Warren Christopher expressing "concern" about "many inaccuracies, distortions and falsehoods" in the film, which he described as "offensive to the entire Islamic world."
There are hundreds more such groups, some tiny and short-lived, others worldwide networks with generations of growth behind them. Down on the South Shore, members of the Nichiren Shoshu Academy, an offshoot of a 13th century Japanese Buddhist sect, pursue enlightenment by frequent chanting of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo...