Word: beys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myself waiting in front of the cathedral with the wilted flowers of the federation in my arms." Today he remains a friend of De Gaulle's; sometimes, referring to his hero's country home, he will call his own modest house in the village of Yamoussoukro "Colom-bey-les-Deux-Eglises." Houphouet-Boigny's sentiments have hardly endeared him to the hotheads of Africa-the Nkrumahs. the Toures and the Nassers-whose political existence is largely based on cursing yesterday's colonialism and extolling today's "positive neutralism.'' This foggy ideology, says Houphouet...
...Europe by sinking his fleet in 1827. Modern Albania won its independence from Turkey in 1913, and a German princeling named William of Wied was selected by the Great Powers to be its King. William could stand Albania for only six months. Ten years later, Ahmed Bey Zogu, son of a tribal chief, successively became Prime Minister, President and then King. As King Zog, he lasted until 1939, when Mussolini invaded Albania. During the war, the Albanian underground fell under the control of the Communists led by an equally ruthless pair of partisans named Hoxha and Xoxe (pronounced Hoja...
...President Mangi Slim Family. Born Sept. 15, 1908, in Tunis, Mongi Slim (pronounced Monjee Sleem) is an improbable cross-breed of Mediterranean civilizations: Greek, Turkish and Arab. One great-grandfather, a Greek named Kafkalas, was captured as a boy by pirates, sold as a mameluke (white slave) to the Bey of Tunis, who educated him, freed him, made him his minister of defense. His paternal grandfather was an aristocratic Caid who ruled the wealthy province of Cape Bon. His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous throughout...
Died. Ahmed Bey Zogu, 65, former King Zog I of Albania, who helped his Balkan land shake off Turkish despotism only to see it taken over, first by Italy, then by the Soviet Union; of stomach ulcers and a liver ailment; in Paris. "My life is an adventure story," said Zog, a mountain chieftain who rose from Premier to President to King, reigned for eleven years before Mussolini's troops chased him into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last...