Word: aly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balloting, not to mention a slight riot (13 dead, 20 hurt), Somalia's election was the straightest in its young history-and one of the freest in all Africa. All but final results announced last week gave the ruling, middle-road Somali Youth League of Premier Ab-dirashid Ali Shermarke 68 of 123 seats in the unicameral National Assembly...
...Georgia's filibustering Democratic Senator Richard Russell rose to take up the cause of Muhammad Ali, more commonly known as Cassius Clay. Scarcely troubling to conceal the twinkle in his eye, Russell inveighed against a World Boxing Association move to vacate Clay's world heavyweight championship title, cited it as a prime example of the intolerance that had inspired the civil rights bill...
...spout was on. "Don't call me Cassius Clay. I am Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight champion of the whole world." But for once, whatever-his-name-is conceded his limitations. "The Army's the boss," he said sagely after hearing that careful double-checking had confirmed he was not intelligent enough to be drafted. Still, now that there was no prospect of his becoming Private Ali, canny Cassius must have been secretly crowing: "I am the dumbest...
Some months before Cassius won his title there were rumors that he was a Black Muslim, and since becoming champion Clay has proudly advertised his new religion and his new name--Muhammed Ali. Most of us tend to view Cassius as a well meaning, but misled child, and as such it is disturbing to see Elijah Muhammed ministering to his spiritual needs...
...Lassman can subscribe to any of these views, but he has no right to ban Cassius Marcellus Clay, or Cassius "Muhammed Ali" Clay from boxing for expounding the glory of Islam...