Word: amarallis
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...Republic of Tunisia, who, among other reforms, abolished polygamy; from Moufida Bourguiba, 72, his wife since 1926, mother of Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's ambassador to the U.S., Canada; in a French-style civil court last spring. Also revealed: Bourguiba's marriage last June to Ouassila Ben Amar, 45, a plump and smart Tunisian divorcee who has long wished to be first lady...
...Hindemith's performance on the vielle, it was as masterly as might be expected from a man who can play every instrument in the orchestra and who was once considered one of the world's leading viola virtuosos (as a soloist and a member of the Amar-Hindemith Quartet...
Nigeria's Theophilus Okonkwo, Uganda's Andrew Amar and Togo's Michel Ayih were among the first 1,000 students to arrive in Russia after the Communists began wholesale recruiting of African students three years ago. Turning up in Frankfurt last week, they told reporters that they and scores of others were leaving Moscow "disgusted" at Communist pressure. "Students from all over Africa and the Near East," they said, "are finding in Moscow that they are merely being used as agents of Soviet power politics." They said that students from 14 African countries met secretly in Moscow...
...Russian girl to dance with him. Soviet authorities even called a meeting to persuade African students to deny the story. When Ayih not only refused to cooperate but joined in fresh complaints to the university rector and to the Ministry of Culture, he was expelled from the Soviet Union. Amar and Okonkwo decided to leave...
...Indians on the continent ever to hold high political office is Sir Amar Nath Maini, Uganda's Minister of Corporations and Regional Communications. Says he: "I know perfectly well that to take office under the British administration means to take the political kiss of death. But what's the alternative? Integration? This 'We-demand-no-special-rights, we-just-want-to-be-brown-Africans' attitude won't get us anywhere. The Syrians tried it in Ghana, and now they are being squeezed dry and flung out. We can come to terms with the African...