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...parties seek to dramatize the point that unless the government puts into practice its long-promised land reform, restless peasants will take matters into their own hands. The specter that haunts responsible Indian leaders is that next time the marchers may be led by a new and vicious political sect that has made peasant rebellion and mayhem parts of its policy...
...Israeli incursions and the fleeing farmers created a new crisis for Premier Rashid Karami's government in Beirut. Most of the refugees belong to the Moslem Shia sect, who hold the menial jobs in Lebanon and who have long received second-class treatment in domestic matters from Lebanon's Christians and the religiously dominant Sunni sect, to which Karami and most Moslems in his Cabinet belong. Now the peasants were angry at becoming pawns in war. Imam Mousa Sadr, religious leader of the Shia, called an effective one-day strike last week that even curtailed operations at Beirut...
There they go, brandishing Bible verses, preaching of doomsday, urging man to repent. A new fundamentalist sect? No, a small but growing band of church scholars on an "eco-trip"-seeking theological underpinning for the ecology crusade...
...Faculty, of course, is not the only Harvard sect that delights in elitism. Many students agree that somehow Harvard must be above all this commotion. We are not above it: Harvard men are supplying tax money to fund the war just as graduates from Northeastern, or Purdue, or Berkeley. Harvard, too, is funneling men and research into the machine that slaughters hundreds of thousands of Asians. Harvard is not above anything- it is deep in the muck that is America...
...York's Harlem-based weekly Amsterdam News is the largest, with a circulation of 82,123. The Baltimore, Richmond and Washington, D.C., editions of the Afro-American have a combined circulation of only 97,600. Muhammad Speaks, the propaganda organ of Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim sect, has a circulation of 400,000. The leading black magazine is the LIFE-like Ebony (circ. 1,216,626), published by John H. Johnson, who also publishes the newsweekly Jet (circ. 394,134) and the polemical journal Negro Digest (circ...