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...flag tanker, on Israel's charter and carrying a full cargo of Persian Gulf oil, sailed up the Gulf of Aqaba last week in a blinding sandstorm and anchored at the Israeli port of Elath. En route, in the Red Sea, a U.S. warship had spoken the tanker and asked it to identify itself. "When we said we were American and on our way to Elath," said the skipper, "the reply was, 'Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF...
...delight-in Asad's autobiography. The Road to Mecca (Simon & Schuster; $5). There are vivid pictures of such figures as the late King Ibn Saud (whom he served as unofficial adviser) and of the beauties and terrors of the great Nufud Desert (where Asad was caught in a sandstorm without supplies and lost for three days). Threaded through the travelogues is a warm and enlightening picture of the world's second largest religion and its believers, who seem to Asad to be free of "those phantoms of fear, greed and inhibition that made European life so ugly...
...some of their pictures New Mexico comes to life with surprising sharpness. Among the standouts: Ernest Blumenschein's Downtown Albuquerque, a view of rooftops and buildings from a hotel window; Kenneth Barrick's Motherless Child, a dimly glimpsed bracero woman carrying a child through a sandstorm...
...Desert Rats is at its best when it ditches its contrived plot and concentrates on hard-hitting scenes of desert warfare pieced out with real newsreel shots (e.g., a Commando raid on a Nazi ammunition dump, Rommel's tanks attacking under cover of a sandstorm). Unusual linguistic touch: Actor Mason, who spoke flawless English as Rommel in The Desert Fox, this time affects a rich Teutonic accent...
...Great White Marabout. Gaunt, subject to fainting spells, he traveled endlessly about the desert, often acting as chaplain for French troops and walking while they rode camels. On one such caravan trip, a fierce sandstorm blotted up all water holes within the radius of a four-day march. When a brackish little mudhole was finally found, Foucauld said his rosary and made no effort to drink until forced to do so. "Christ was much more thirsty on the cross!" he explained...