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...side was President Camille Chamoun, a Christian of the Maronite Roman Catholic sect, with all the claims upon U.S. good will of a stoutly pro-Western leader who has led his little country from its Swiss-modeled neutrality at the heart of the Arab world to all-out espousal of the Eisenhower Doctrine. On the other were the rebel politicians, some of them professional Moslems who have been photographed in the forefront of practically every Arab nationalist gathering that Nasser has assembled over the last few years in Cairo. In between was Lebanon's little army, largely Christian-officered...
...this point of deadlock. TIME Correspondent Denis Fodor taxied up into the mountains to call on Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt, 39, hereditary chieftain of the Druses, the fiercely dissident Moslem sect who farm and feud along Lebanon's eastern border. Reported Fodor...
...tiny but tough sect got its start in 1653 with a group of fundamentalists in the Russian Orthodox Church. They balked at such reforms as modernizing their ancient Slavonic liturgical books and using three fingers (signifying the Holy Trinity) when crossing themselves. Old Believers stuck by two fingers (signifying the dual nature of Christ) and other old traditions. Excommunicated, they set up their own church organization to keep track of births and deaths. They married only within their small fold, lived in isolated farm colonies where they produced their own food, clothing and shelter. Their descendants still scorn doctors...
...Valley near Harbin in the late 1920s. There they lived peacefully until 1945, farming and hunting tiger and boar. Then the Soviet army marched in to occupy the area, threw 300 of the menfolk into slave labor camps. In 1952 the Chinese Communists, who had taken over, promised the sect a chance to migrate to Paraguay. The Old Believers sold their hunting rifles and farms, only to have the Communist government go back on its promise. But last year Peking finally softened, let 526 Old Believers leave for Hong Kong...
...Mormon and of Mormon theology and history. Indeed, he devotes too much space to a mere chronicle of Mormon history. But O'Dea realizes two essential things about the Mormons: that their values and experience have been peculiarly American, and that the Mormons are not merely a religious sect, but a distinct society. Although O'Dea does not make the connection, these are the two principle reasons for the continued success of Mormonism...