Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate, they will leave in style. Last week Nauru's elected chieftain, Hammer deRoburt, finished hammering out a contract with its principal phosphate customers-Australia, New Zealand, Britain-that will assure the island's 500 families a kitty of $225 million by the time the phosphate runs out. Under the agreement, deRoburt, 42, more than trebled his people's royalties (to $1.50 a ton, retroactive to July 1, 1964) and extracted yet another price boost (to $1.97), effective next year. The Australian government, which administers the island as a U.N. trust territory, will hold most...
Died. Efrain González, 29, Colombian bandit chieftain, one of the Andean country's most wanted men and leader of a gang credited with close to 250 murders in the past six years; by gunfire, in an attack on his suburban Bogotá hideout by 425 soldiers using tear gas, rifles, machine guns and a 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun, while thousands of civilians looked...
Zulu power had begun to consolidate some 60 years before Isandhlwana under a rapacious and cruel tribal chieftain, who was called Shaka after his unseemly birth.* Viewing South Africa's teeming, disputatious tribes, Shaka had a vision of the strength that unity could bring, and he set out in 1817 to unify by conquest. Within a year, his modest impi of 350 warriors had swollen to 2,000. In ten years, an army of 50,000 enforced Shaka's will over a domain the size of Nevada...
...father, also a chieftain, dallied with a humble woman of another tribe. This was inexcusable royal behavior, and so the son was contemptuously named after the intestinal beetles, iShaka, that the Zulus held responsible for all illegitimate births...
Readers and editors recalled the popularity of the strutting little chieftain, the cheering crowds that greeted him, the cottages where his picture was pasted beside the Virgin Mary, and the women who fell in love with him. "It's still unclear to me," wrote a reader from Foggia, "to what extent Mussolini imposed himself on Italians and to what extent he was called. Because there was once a time when we were all a bit mad." Insisted Novelist Giovanni Artieri: "Mussolini gave Italians the awareness of belonging to a great nation...