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Harriett Muhammad's advice-to-the-lovelorn column, "For and About You," has been a regular feature of the paper since November, 1963. Harriett was married to Elijah’s son Akbar from 1960 to October, 1963. In September, 1961, she accompanied Akbar to Cairo, Egypt, where both attended schools. Their marriage was unsuccessful, and they returned to the United States and were divorced in October, 1963. Akbar went back to Egypt and married an Egyptian girl. Harriett, with hardly the best qualifications for her new job, immediately began her advice-to-the-lovelorn column. In June, 1964, columnist Harriett remarried. This time, she became the wife of a 27-year-old bigamist who had deserted a wife and three small children. The third regular contributor to the cult paper, Abdul Basit Naeem, for the past eight years has written much in praise of Elijah Muhammad. | Naeem began a new column, ‘Speaking of Business, "’ in the January 29, 1965, issue of ‘Muhammad Speaks." Its purpose is to report on and furnish advice to Muslim businesses and to stimulate their use of the newspaper for advertising. Naeem was born in India and entered the United States from Pakistan in 1953. In the Fall of 1956, he issued a bimonthly publication, "The Moslem “World and the U.S.A." Through this little periodical, he said, he desired to impart information nbout Isiarm and to consolidate various orthodox Muslim groups in the United States. After including an article about the NOI in one © issue, he was contacted by cult leaders. Being in dire financial straits, - 67 -