Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boundary between independent, isolated Yemen and the British Protectorate of Aden, on the southern tip of Arabia, are, as one British diplomat put it, part of the "burden of empire." Last spring, Aden's British Governor Sir Reginald Champion added another straw to his imperial burden. An Adenese chieftain, the Sharif of Beiham, had asked that a frontier customs post be set up to tap the rich stream of smuggled coffee, skins and qat (an Arabian drug) which kept flowing into his territory over an ancient traders' trail from Yemen. Governor Champion ordered the post built...
...knew what had hit him. Hearing rumblings of the plot, Mollinedo moved fast. In La Paz, he arrested most of M.N.R.'s underground general staff; he also captured rifles, submachine guns, ammunition, grenades and documents listing the rebel "government" that was to be headed by exiled M.N.R. Chieftain Víctor Paz Estenssoro...
...Rocky Mountain area. Now 42, Beshoar is a native of Trinidad, Colo. His father was a physician and surgeon there - as was his grandfather, who established the first drugstore between Denver and Santa Fe - in Pueblo, Colo, in 1866. Grandfather also founded four newspapers, of which only the Pueblo Chieftain survives (another, the defunct Trinidad Advertiser, provided the late Damon Runyon with his first newspaper...
Raid on the Village. When she was five months pregnant, Marianthi and Papouas asked their chieftain for permission to marry. He answered: "When ships are sinking, it is no time to talk of weddings." Later, however, he consented. The wedding was celebrated with a raid on a village, feasting, singing and dancing. Marianthi, of course, did not dance, but she was moved by the strains of her favorite song: "Ossa sidera o Truman na rixi nikitis thane panto, o laos" (However much iron Truman throws in, the people will always be victorious...
...What are they worrying about?" asked Editor Thomas Dabney of the Socorro, N.Mex. Chieftain. "All the critters came back to the crater, and they're just as ornery as they ever were...