Bizarre Bazaars
ALAN, RAY
Bizarre Bazaars GUIDEBOOK EDITORS will have to reclassify Cairo, Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, and Ispahan. The biggest bazaars are now London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, and Bonn. To the man with...
...It is derived from car/era (wallet) and means, I regret to say, "pickpockets...
...Lebanese and American officials had grounds for suspecting that Palestinians murdered him, and PLO representatives promised to track down the killers and punish them...
...Musa Sadr, head of the Mitwali, an important Shia (heterodox Moslem) community of Lebanon, who disappeared in 1978, is now known to have been shot by a Libyan firing squad on the orders of one of Qaddafi's aides...
...Take your pick, ya Sidi, and may Jesus??sorry, Sir-may Allah shower still more blessings upon you...
...Only theUnit-ed States could have achieved it...
...It now appears that Begin's reign is almost over and gone, even if the time of the singing of birds is not quite here...
...Qaddafi was furious with the Imam Sadr for turning down a Libyan plan for a coup in Lebanon, but it has not been established that he was directly responsible: The aide who ordered the "execution" may have misinterpreted his boss' anger...
...The firm receiving them is free to feed, house and pay them as it wishes??no questions asked...
...Sania Hamady, the brilliant Lebanese-American author of The Temperament and Character of the Arabs (Twayne, New York, I960...
...America's Soviet, French, British and other critics are all too aware that, incontrast, their own governments' roles in the Middle East have, on balance, been negative and mischievous...
...Should he lose the summer election and be replaced by Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, one may expect a revival of Egyptian interest in neighborly relations with Israel and ultimately, if external mischief-making can be contained, an extension of the peacemaking process...
...The PLO failed to deliver, but American investigators discovered in due course that the murderers were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose leader, George Habbash, had personally commanded the "operation...
...ftftft "WHY," asked an American lady indignantly a few weeks ago, "are the Spanish police arresting people who supported President Carter...
...ft ft ft WHEN LIBYA invaded the black African state of Chad in January, nato officials in Brussels suspected that France, Chad's unofficial protector, had abandoned it to Colonel Qaddafi in exchange for an oil concession...
...She pointed to a splash of Spanish newspaper headlines announcing widespread police action against "carteristas...
...The spirit of that agreement has at times been frustrated by the stubbornness of Israel's Prime Minister Mena-chem Begin, but that is not America's fault...
...One can imagine a fascinating scenario: The Pakistanis, determined to liberate themselves at last from seemingly endless poverty, use their two divisions as a Trojan horse-force and take over Saudi Arabia (much of which the Saudis grabbed from the Hashemites anyway...
...they have chipped away at American interests and profited richly from massive arms sales to the region...
...ft ft ft WHAT HAS happened to Dr...
...A Spanish businessman told me that he had been offered a supply of "slaves" by a Pakistan agency...
...To the man with petrodollars or just plain old-fashioned barrels of oil, everything in Western Europe is for sale: historic buildings, nuclear knowhow, governmental policies, politicians, top-secret weapons, top-level collusion...
...The Saudis do not trust their own Arab troops performing these duties and are worried by the spread of "disloyal ideas" among their officers...
...Now Saudi Arabia and one or two smaller oil states are importing what a colleague on the scene describes as "near-slaves" from Pakistan...
...the LondoniTco/KWiis/ considered it essential reading for officials handling Arab affairs...
...Qaddafi apparently believes that his people need military training rather than a rational education or industrial skills...
...Expansionist propaganda has been intensified, and Scaleboard missiles supplied by the Soviet Union are reportedly being targeted on objectives in Egypt, including the great Aswan dam, the destruction of which would drown an incalculable number of Egyptians...
...They would be commanded by Pakistani officers and would guard royal palaces, communications centers, vital urban approaches and key oil installations...
...We had just come from the tumultuous provisional headquarters of the Socialist and Communist parties, which were already besieged by applicants for membership...
...many students and workers are being drafted into the Army while colleges and schools are being militarized...
...European politicians who are living from hand to mouth and afraid of the oil states??and potentates who are themselves desperately scared of the Middle East's many varieties of religious and political extremism??can't be expected to look that far into the future...
...The killers??one of whom hid out for some time in Canada??are activists of the pro-Soviet wing of the PLO...
...He writes: "Neither her publishers nor her university (Miami) know her whereabouts...
...ft ft ft LIKE ANY new team, the Reagan Administration will want to move in new directions and to turn its back on many of its predecessors' policies...
...But it should be proud to underwrite the Camp David agreement...
...He said: "Well, by my definition they are certainly slaves...
...In the 1950s the survival of a limited traffic was reported in the European press (as well as in an article of mine in the defunct Reporter magazine in New York) and this publicity may have helped to bring the practice to an end...
...All of them took advantage of the weakness of the Carter Administration in its last few months to snipe at United States policy in the Middle East and assure their Arab oil suppliers that they would do what they could to discredit the Camp David peace agreement between Egypt and Israel and persuade Washington to scrap it...
...He is the only Israeli political figure I can think of who has managed to win friends for his country on the international scene in recent years...
...The Ambassador had been interrogated for several hours on United States policies before being shot...
...Too bad that wrecking the Egyptian-Israeli pact would plunge the region into war, devastate Egypt, Israel and Jordan, and leave adventurers like Libya's Colonel Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein predominant in the region, free to concentrate on subverting the Arabian oil potentates and with them the infidel West...
...The third was Joaquim Magalhaes Mo-ta, who is only a rung or two below his friend Balsemao on the political ladder...
...The Soviet, British and French governments have all, in their day, fomented crises in the Middle East, setting state against state, people against people, and even tribe against tribe...
...The Spanish word "carteristas" was, however, coined long before Jimmy Carter was elected...
...Francis Molloy, the American Ambassador to Lebanon, was abducted and shot dead in Beirut in 1976...
...In Egypt, with less inducement, the Mamelukes, a Caucasian military slave-force, revolted in the 12th century and kept control of the country for nearly 600 years...
...One of them was Francisco Sa Car-neiro, a small man with great courage who defeated a serious illness by what seemed, essentially, willpower, won a tough election and became Prime Minister last year...
...They looked at one another, grinned and replied: "Three...
...Another was Francisco Pinto Balsemao, who was appointed Prime Minister after Sa Carneiro's death in an air crash two months ago...
...ft ft ft TWO MURDER mysteries that have aroused much controversy in the Middle East have been solved??without resolving anything...
...Here, in this quiet apartment, the atmosphere was different, and after hearing their program I asked the three Popular Democrats how many members they had...
...Since 1945 not one of them has achieved anything for the cause of peace comparable to Camp David...
...When a senior Egyptian officer urged President Sadat to invade Libya before Qaddafi had Egypt by the throat, he was told: "America says No...
...The murder has provoked clashes between Shiite and pro-Qaddafi Sunni Moslems in Lebanon...
...Peres made a good impression on a recent International Labor congress that was held in Madrid and helped steer its resolution on the Middle East toward moderation...
...But a colleague who wished to contact her has been unable to trace her...
...Probably a unique record, and (although they disagreed at times) they accomplished it by firm fidelity to their liberal-democratic principles...
...The Saudi government is now pressing Pakistan's ruler, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, to send it two divisions of military servants...
...But France, Germany, Italy, and Britain (despite its North Sea oil) are little better...
...They would pay Pakistan with oil and help it finance an atomic reactor and, it is rumored, General Zia's dream??a nuclear weapon to match the one India is developing...
...ft ft ft TWO OR THREE days after the overthrow of the stuffy dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano in Portugal in 1974,1 sat with correspondents of the London Times and Financial Times in a Lisbon apartment drinking coffee while three pleasant youngish men explained the program of their political party, the Popular Democrats...
...They may have been wrong: French officials seem to be genuinely angry over the action taken by Qaddafi, though oil would no doubt soothe their anger...
...More recently, some Egyptians have grumbled that the Carter Administration turned a blind eye on Libyan expansionism and militarism in return for an uninterrupted flow of oil...
...It has been widely praised and quoted...
...The Spanish government, faced with grim social and economic problems that have been aggravated by the energy crisis, is Western Europe's most abject administration, pathetically grateful when even a minor dictator like Saddam Hussein of Iraq sends along his sidekick on an official visit...
...Her book is considered by Mideast experts the frankest and most important study of its kind ever published...
...ft ft ft ARABIA USED to import slaves from Africa...
Vol. 64 • February 1981 • No. 4
