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...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...
...third opera put on at Dallas was a repeat of Rossini's rarely performed romp, L'ltaliana in Algeri, introducing 23-year-old Spanish Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza. The possessor of a silvery, dulcet voice, she acted the title role (an Italian girl imprisoned by a libidinous bey) with a kind of fresh, provincial charm. A onetime pianist, Mezzo Berganza has toured Europe in recitals but has had little operatic experience. The Dallas News's Critic John Rosenfield noted that L'ltaliana in Algeri had "ended up as a love affair between prima donna and patrons...
...from the Cabinet. The final break came when Bourguiba brought to trial Millionaire Tahar ben Amar, a moderate nationalist who served as interim Premier before Bourguiba took over. Although Ben Amar was charged with tax evasion, the government used the trial to accuse him of "treason" in helping the Bey's family smuggle jewels from the country. Complained old Ben Amar: "I did not want to be Premier in the first place. I only accepted because Bourguiba pleaded with me to accept." The court's finding: no treasonable behavior, but it levied a $75,000 fine...