Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 6, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Fott muss wednesday August 6, 1915 saudi dream of glory May shatter on harsh reality by Aly Mahmoud Mecca. Saudi Arabia a this Oil Rich kingdom i is planning to spend billions of dollars to unite the world s j widely scattered moslem nations under saudi arabian religious leadership. I the saudi dream is certain to run against the harsh Reali ties of theological splits Polit ical feuds and the sheer Geo graphical spread of the mos Lem Faith. But the saudis want to re capture some of the glory of a seventh Century islamic Arab Empire that stretched from the Himalayas to Southern France at its Apex. That and the succeeding ottoman tur Kish Empire which brought islam to the Gates of Vienna covered much of the known world of the time. The saudis keepers of the moslem holy cities of Mecca and Medina see themselves As the logical leaders of a 20th-Century islamic Resur gence. The new Empire As they see it would be based on religion and shared wealth not Conquest. It would include common foreign policy collective defence and economic integration. The saudi ambitions Are closely tied to an Arab Awa Kening that grew with the economic Power of Oil dollars and was strengthened by a sense of recovered Honor after the War with Israel. Hen the arabs find glory so does Arab proverb says. But Only an estimated million of the world s 560 million Moselem Are arabs or speak arabic language of the moslem holy Book the Koran. The world s largest moslem nation in fact is non Arab Indonesia with 130 million inhabitants. Today. I suppose non Arab moslem would not accept an Arab led said an Arab moslem scholar at the american University of Survey completed result in 6 weeks j by John Momant s free press staff writer Hie project manager of the using Trace a time stamp system to the two Day time stamp sys passengers and visitors resulted in about persons Winnipeg area Airport tracked and timed while study says he thinks the Satu using the terminal. The people ration Survey carried out at carried a card which was Winnipeg International Airport stamped with the time at for two weeks will be done at various locations in the Termi other airports in Canada As it Nal. Proved such a Broad Survey he said during cleanup his is manageable All at i staff found slightly More than Harold Bell in an interview tuesday said other airports in Canada have been surveyed in bits and pieces but the july 21 to aug. 2 Survey was the first attempt at measuring the use of the Airport by Passen 100 time cards had been thrown away. Tern was a Pilot project that brought a consultant from Ottawa to videotape the Survey checkpoints thursday Friday saturday and sunday. Or. John p. Braaksma of Carleton University in Ottawa headed the taping Crew which in effect was a Survey of the surveyors to see what Dis nip ution was the taping a air. Bell said there before and a Day after the sizes we looked for in All areas. All employees on the Airport were included with the exception of the 1.000-plus at Bristol aerospace and Stan Dard Aero engine who were on annual shutdown and these now Are being or. Bell said. Beirut. Tie turks would t. The iranians would t. Not to speak of deeply rooted differences Between shiites druze and is maites who suspect each other and to Gether suspect the nearly 80 per cent of the world s moslem population is sunni including most saudis and their King Khaled. Sunnis hold that the caliphate or religious leadership is an elec Tive office and must be assumed by a member of the tribe of Quraish i Mecca. There ?.re about so million shiites la the world mainly in Iran Iraq and Pakistan. They Are followers of Ali the fourth right guiding or successor of Mohammed the moslem Prophet who founded islam in the Early seventh Century. They regard Ali and his descendants As the Only rightful caliphs. They insist the caliphate is a divine mandate and those who oppose this theory Are to j be treated As heretics. Is maulites and dues Are smaller minorities with their own leaders the Aga Khan and Sheik Mohammed Abu shark a. The saudi drive May also be impeded by troubled ties among several moslem coun tries. Relations Between Pakistan and Bangladesh still Are clouded by bitter suspicions. Libya and Egypt Syria and Iran and Oman and South Yemen among others Are locked in Border and ideological disputes. The reawakening might also be hindered by great differences in. Wealth. Saudi Arabia is one of the world s richest nations with Only four million citizens. Bangladesh is one of the poorest with 75 million. Moreover Many nations in which islam is the dominant religion Are committed to secularism among them Turkey. Iran Iraq. Algeria and in Donesia. They tend to resist saudi Arabia s theocratic push. Barring unforeseen Emer gence of some charismatic leaders i just Don t see an islamic Empire As feasible in the 20th added the scholar who did not want to be identified. The Best that present Day moslem could do would be to Start off with the easiest forms of islamic common Market uniting their cultures customs tariffs and the of Africa s population of 940 million nearly 130 million Are moslem. Some 420 million of Asia s population of two billion Are moslem. They Are a majority in the East Mediterranean and some parts of Central Asia Malaysia and Southeast Asia. There Are nearly 35 Mil lion moslem in the soviet Union set million in India. 20 million in China 17 million in Afghanistan and nearly two million in the Philippines. In addition there Are about moslem in North America in latin America and nearly six Mil lion in the Balkans. To further its Unity plan the saudi government has earmarked nearly s1co Mil lion for an islamic Solidarity fund s750 million for an Isla Mic Bank and s3.1 million for an islamic news Agency King Faisal was quoted As saying shortly before he was assassinated that up to 30 per cent of saudi Arabia s s27.7 billion budget would go for Aid projects. The Aid is linked to promises to uphold moslem traditions. Some experts estimate the saudis will give away More than billion Over the next 10 years mostly to moslem i nations. To be Little disruption of traffic flow by surveyors adjustment in the one slight time stamp checkpoints saturday resulted and employees As Well Sajiu a traffic flow in the Termi facilities vehicle traffic characteristics o f transportation available and a time and to Uon measurement of Passen Gers and employees involved in boarding and. Unloading Passen Gers. He said the study staff now is working on data reduction and coding but it will be about six weeks before we get a picture of what was the Federal ministry of Nal very much like time stamp operation was to provide data on How the Termi Nal operated when the time stamp study was not being car ried out. We achieved the Sample japanese to study Mercury poisoning Tokyo special Asp transport official said he was i japanese experts on the Mina sure the Survey had reached its target of and that the last interviews two Days Mala disease will visit Canada ies suppl being replaced the provincial medical sup ply and Home care equipment program was expected to be Back in operation wednesday across the Street from its former 1000 Powell Avenue St. James Assiniboia location which was heavily damaged by fire monday. G. Dudley Crawford the pro Gram s coordinator said tues Day that providing Telephone were installed we will be in business medical supplies and equip ment Are being flown in from Eastern Canada to replenish Stock lost in the fire. While the Stock won t be fully replaced Well be Able to have a lot of or. Crawford said. It might be a week or so be fore an official damage estimate can be Given. However there was some indication the damage might reach August Thorimbert Provin Cial fire commissioner said tuesday an investigation by Bis department into the Blaze had t turned up anything yet. Next month for a second round investigation into a suspected Mercury poisoning of Canadian indians in Ontario. This was disclosed at a rally held this week in Tokyo at which five Canadian indians from Grassy Narrows and White dog reservations called on some 300 participants for International co operation i n anti pollution Battles. The japanese group to visit Canada in mid August will in Lude or. Masazumi Harada assistant professor of Kumamoto University or. Jun i a a n s anti solution crusade Leader and or. Kenicki Miyamoto of Osaka City University. They will conduct extensive research and examination o the indians believed to be Vic Tims of the organic Mercury poisoning Mcnamata disease. A Tokyo civic organization to support Mcnamata disease patients which sponsored the rally also said that several Mcnamata Mercury poisoning victims will visit Ontario in september to strengthen rela ions with the Canadian Indi ans. The five Canadian indians who arrived Here july 27 on a two week visit to study Mercury pollution in Japan toured Mcnamata in Kumamoto prefecture Southern Japan and Niigata Northwest of Tokyo to Exchange views with local Vic Tims of Mercury poisoning and hear lectures on the Mcnamata disease which had wrecked mentally and physically sever Al Hundred persons. Supertanker facing possible extinction Bay break in nets thieves in goods Thompson Man. Staff a break in at the Hudson s Bay company store Here Early. Sat urday netted thieves Worth of merchandise. R c m p investigating the b r e a k i n reported tuesday thieves apparently broke a Glass floor at the London a the supertanker the Leviathan of the seas faces pos sible extinction. Shipping experts say the big fellow May become uneconomical As a result of the deep slump in the Tanker business caused by High Oil prices. One in 10 of the world s tankers Large and Small have been Laid up or sold for scrap and the worst is yet to come the experts warn. One broker estimated that half the world s supertanker May be redundant by 1980, used Only As floating Oil storage tanks or granaries. It s pretty Damn commented Norman Douglas of the general Council of British shipping no one sees any immediate pros through rear of the building about 1 . The thieves made off with 30 j men s and 13 w o m e n s j watches several rifles an assortment of jackets shirts and jeans and various hardware items. The store office was rifled and an attempt made to break into the Safe. A screw Driver was left jammed in its door police said. Meni ignites will hold convention the mennonite Brethren churches of North America will hold a convention in Winnipeg saturday to tuesday. A number of convention ral j lies will be held at the Winnipeg convention Centre including the main address by Moderator Marvin Hein at pet of things easing. 1 Don t think we be hit Rock Bottom on this Forrester a respected London brokerage said 455 tankers totalling 37.5 Mil lion tons were Idle at the end of june. They included 49 supertanker of 200.000 tons or More. By the end of july Uliey said. 500 tankers will be Laid up or headed for the breaker s Yard. That s about 40 million of the world s total of 372 million tons of Tanker shipping. The gobs is More conservative. It said 368 tankers ranging from ves Sels to supertanker were Laid up at the end of june. That it said totals 11 per cent of the world Fleet. At the beginning of the year Only 3.5 million tons of Tanker shipping including Oliree supertanker were Idle. The experts noted however that Many More tankers these Days Are slow steam in g cruising at slower speeds than Normal to save fuel and stretch out voyages to slay in business. British Petroleum Britain s biggest Oil outfit reported its entire Fleet of 90 tankers is Skov steaming. By alone has Laid up three tankers and sold another 11. The Onassis Fleet has Laid up several. Each Laid up vessel costs i t s owners an estimated s50.000 a month to maintain. The experts reckon this year alone More than 4.5 Mil lion tons of Tanker shipping have been sold for scrap big business for the Breakers Yards of Taiwan and Spain. The slump was caused by the 1s73 Arab israeli War and the Arab Oil embargo that Fol Lowed. Fuel conservation pro Grams launched by Industrial countries and a worldwide economic slowdown crippled the Tanker business. Homemade Detector finds sculpture Jerusalem a p Ai the Jordan Valley. United states tourist went trea j the figure buried three feet a sure Hunting in Israel with a underground was located by a a Alurdas simultaneous j homemade Metal Detector and hand held Metal Detector he e n c 1 i s h German and Chil discovered a 1.800-year-old built from a fat m the United dren7s services at 10 . Sun-1 Bronze sculpture of the roman Stales. Day and a rally at 5 . Sun emperor Hadrian in near per. The bust was turned Over to div i feet condition experts reported the israeli government. Via j tuesday. I after treatment to prevent avenue1 an official of the department its deterioration the statue business sessions held at the Portage mennonite Brethren ing on monday and tuesday. Church of antiquities who examined i the like Biz statue said All of the features Are easily discern Ible including a curly Beard. The official said that Bronze by displayed at Trie Rocke o a Nugues Okuga Frost Poison Prague. Czechoslovakia first to Bathe in spa f title Rock. Ark. A sculptures from that period arc Spanish explorer Hernando de extremely rare because subset Reuter doctors Here claim j Sota gave hot Springs its Start i Quonn generations melted most to have developed an anti Jas the so called spa to the of them for their Metal. Thrombosis drug from Viper world according to the state Morton Leventhal. A new Poison. The drug called parts recreation stockbroker and isolated from the Poison of department. De Soia and his Archeo Logitu said he turned up carpet vipers and has already j party were the first visitor to the casting j from the second been successfully tested on Bathe in hot Springs therms Century and Thile combing the Mats. It appears to act quickly ice colons israeli Countryside near in about one and to Over 90 dare cookies at a budget Price. Oatmeal Coo Farned Avoine Oatmeal fudge Ginger three Favourite cookies at a remarkably Low Price. A Pound and a half of dare Quality cookies in an easy storing Box. Every cookie is made with real Oatmeal real Ginger or real Cocoa for the kind of qual Ity fat made dare famous. Try 90 of them soon. You la Surprise your cookie budget save Loo on one of these three new dare cookies 7o the dealer Dae h firmed will r 104 plus a Jeci Yea ant your with of Lotf seat on Trews a Vojt exp chases i o const cows by it Scofi of request m coupons years after bus discovered America. Ancient City of beit scan in by effective for up to an hour ;