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Islamic Zeal. In Libya, other foreigners also sense increasing hostility. The twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council, of which Gaddafi is the leader, last June closed down the giant Wheelus U.S. Air Force Base near Tripoli and British bases at Tobruk and El Adem in eastern Libya. Police stop autos driven...
Along with xenophobia has come a surge of Islamic asceticism. All foreign language signs are banned, including street names. Tripoli hotels have had to buy new towels and table napkins to replace the old ones, which had English or Italian on them. Pork has been banned; so has alcohol (except...
In resurrecting the legion, Paris apparently acted out of fear that if a pan-Islamic force gained sway in Chad, there would be trouble in other former French colonies on Chad's border-Niger, the Central African Republic and Cameroun. Backed mainly by the Saras, who account for just...
Magic Amulets. Many of the rebels are hawk-nosed Toubou bandits from the mountains of Tibesti, where, legend has it, the wind is born. Others are wild-haired southern and eastern Islamic warriors bent on holy war, who carry amulets to ward off bullets. Though some of them wear only...
Nasser was right. Trouble started soon after the delegates invited India, whose Moslem minority of 60 million gives it the world's third largest Islamic population (after Indonesia's 100 million and Pakistan's 90 million). Next day the Indian Ambassador to Morocco, a gray-bearded Sikh...