Word: chieftain
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...Zerdani. Flamboyant but Uneducated. Tensions between Boumediene and his army chief had been building ever since the two men combined their forces to overthrow the demagogic Ahmed ben Bella in June 1965. Zbiri, 37, a flamboyant but uneducated Berber tribesman who had fought against the French as a guerrilla chieftain, was a believer in the purity of the revolution and all its impossible promises of socialist equality and prosperity...
...even more persistent Reuther theme was that the Big Three automakers were engaged in a "collusive conspiracy" masterminded by G.M. What particularly bothered the U.A.W. chieftain was the refusal by G.M. and Chrysler to extend their union contracts be yond last week's expiration date. While assuring the union that his company had "no intention to lock out its employees," G.M. Vice President Louis G. Seaton declared flatly: "There is no possibility of settlement. Therefore we will not extend the contract...
...civilization, and the topsy-turvy quality of its life is caught so expertly by the author that terrifying and absurd events come to seem fully logical. Studding the story are keenly observed individual portraits, among them a witch doctor frantically clinging to a waning authority and a self-important chieftain who | wears European khakis under his tribal robes...
Along the way, lives conveniently intertwine like braids. The frustrated newlywed groom sleeps with a nubile teenager, and gets her pregnant. A wild shot in the dark kills a prowling Indian boy. His father, a Sioux chieftain, demands a life for a life, and the leader of the pioneers (Kirk Douglas) hangs the offender-who happens to be the adulterer-with his own hands. Widmark's son nobly proposes marriage to the teenager...
...struggle that continues despite the signing of an armistice in 1965. Though he has lost some 5,000 Egyptian troops, Nasser vows to "stay in Yemen 20 years if necessary." Monarchist guerrillas, garrisoned in mountain caves, are not budging either. "We live here," says their military chieftain, Prince Hussein bin Ahmed. "We are prepared to fight for 50 years to keep Nasser out, just as we did the Ottoman Turks...