Word: religiousity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using the student militants as a sort of Muslim Red Guard, Khomeini unleashed a campaign to silence critics of his strict theocracy. The students produced documents, purportedly from embassy files, indicating that Ambassador to Sweden Abbas Amir Entezan had advised the U.S. on ways of mending relations with the revolutionary...
A small elite group of men and women are wheedling, cajoling, flattering and threatening in an effort to reach one another's minds. Rarely has the international struggle for influence grown so intricate, with religious, legal, family, political, economic, humanistic and military considerations so delicately mixed. We seek to...
Nowhere is concern over the future more manifest than in Saudi Arabia, where a feudal monarchy rules a sparsely settled (estimated pop. between 4 million and 7 million) land containing 23.2% of the world's proven oil reserves. The ruling House of Saud was badly shaken by last month...
There began in the White House what one Carter confidant calls "a circular process." From early morning until pillow-talk time, the President accumulated information and ideas that demanded yes or no. He repeated the routine each day. The number of suggestions and ideas increased. Suddenly, admits a Carter aide...
The report, which covered a twelve-month period ending on April 30, claimed that there had been some felicitous improvements, like the fall last April of Uganda's murderous Idi Amin, but it said that they were eclipsed by serious deteriorations elsewhere. An example: the increasing execution of criminals...