Word: aba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ABA Commission on Electoral College Reform, of which Freund was a member, recommended Sunday that the president and vice-president, running as a team, be elected by national popular vote with a minimum of 40 per cent required for election. If no candidate received 40 per cent, a national runoff election would be held...
...proposal receives the expected approval from the full ABA House of Delegates at its February meeting, the ABA may institute local and national groups to press for its adoption as a constitutional amendment...
...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...
...week's end the rebels were still falling back on Faradje and Aba. But they were not everywhere in retreat. At dawn in midweek, Simbas made a determined attack on Paulis that was beaten off only when 28 planes hit the rebel positions with rockets. Farther south, the district around Fizi was held by Simbas, and a resident wrote bitterly to a Leopoldville newspaper that "government forces would have been here long ago" if only "there had been white hostages in Fizi...
...Correspondent Peter Forbath, who drove to Arua last week, found several bearded Simbas in monkeyskin caps gulping palm wine in the town marketplace. Local merchants reported that the rebels have been forced to route several Juba arms shipments through Arua instead of straight across the Congo-Sudan border to Aba. Reason: stepped-up activity by the Sudan's own rebels-who are anti-Arab, pro-Tshombe-has made the Juba-Aba road too dangerous for the Simba convoys...