Word: chieftain
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...Legionnaires are a carefully assorted lot, the exotic equivalent of the cross sections found in bomber crews in World War II movies-a soulful French muscian, a what-ho English blueblood, a hulking Russian who once guarded the Czar's family, and so on. Hackman and the chieftain of the hostile desert tribes (Ian Holm) are, naturally, old and respectful friends, although somehow Scriptwriter David Zelag Goodman neglected to make them former college roommates...
...certified Third World spokesman and a leading advocate of a "new international economic order." At the same time he is an OPEC chieftain presiding over a burgeoning economy and the head of one of Latin America's few democracies. With all those credentials, Carlos Andrés Pérez, the expansive President of Venezuela, was assured warm abrazos when he arrived in Washington last week as the first South American statesman to get a come-visit invitation from Jimmy Carter...
...peace settlement. An intensely proud man, Assad is the only Middle East leader who declined an invitation to Washington; he even balked at meeting Carter in London. The President, however, apparently decided that it would be worth going the extra half-step to see Assad, the only major Arab chieftain with lines open to the Soviets...
...assassination fitted the pattern of Jumblatt's life, as well as that of recent Lebanese history. His father, a Druze chieftain, was assassinated in a sectarian squabble in the 1920s, and his sister was gunned down ten months ago in her Beirut apartment. Jumblatt himself was as paradoxical as his fractured society. Educated in law at the Sorbonne in Paris and at a Roman Catholic university in Beirut, he fought throughout his career to revise the antiquated sectarian political system whereby Lebanese Christians automatically held the balance of power in the government. Although Jumblatt was a Socialist...
...organized crime: "Most of the bosses might welcome a new image, a strong figure who would take the heat and let them get on with business." One boss, Aniello Dellacroce, 62, may have other ideas. Known for his own brand of ruthlessness, Dellacroce may be the only Mafia chieftain who might have the guts to challenge the little old man from Little Italy...