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...Kremlin sent troops, tanks and military hardware into Afghanistan in December 1979, and presided over the replacement of one Marxist ruler by another. The intervention has been a major irritant in U.S.--Soviet relations and has soured Kremlin ties with many Moslem and Third World countries...
Iran is Persian, not Arab. It shares the Moslem religion with the Arabs, but it adheres to the minority Shiite sect that has been at odds with the predominant Sunni branch of Islam for 1300 years...
Islamic Jihad, an extremist Shiite group whose name means Moslem Holy War, released a picture of American hostage Terry Anderson. It threatened action against the Saudi government and the United States...
Police with rifles, on foot and in cars, flanked the 157,000 Iranians while military helicopters chuffed overhead, residents of the area reported. Police planned to guard the Iranians while the pilgrims camped overnight on the plain in preparation for the culmination today of the hajj, or Moslem pilgrimage...
...Nigeria had been independent for six years, but "a nation in name only." Tension among the Yoruba, Ibo, and some two hundred other tribes came to a head when an aborted coup led by lbo army officers resulted in the death of a Moslem leader. The call reverberated throughout Nigeria: "One million Ibos must die to avenge the death of the Saudana." In October, 1966, the Federal Military Government of Nigeria began a blockade of the Eastern Region--seven months before Biafra would secede...