Word: chieftains
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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...
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...
Last week came news that Kenyatta was expecting a shipment of Russian arms, but before anyone could jump to the conclusion that the former Mau Mau chieftain had thrown his lot in with the Communists, Security Minister Mungai rushed out a statement reassuring everyone that there was nothing pernicious about the deal. "Kenya will continue to buy arms and ammunition from West or East as long as they are suitable and carry the right price," he said...
...script: 2,000 "incidents," or problems, with which Krulak wanted his people encumbered, such as the pesky natives on the beach, a Lancelotian request for school textbooks, a native woman who wanted the Marines to arrange a baptism, scores of requests for food and medical aid, and a village chieftain who refused to deal with anyone less than the U.S. commander himself. That commander, General Hurst, had been given little notion beforehand of the devilish difficulties that Krulak...
...year term last year, the rumbles were as loud as an Andean avalanche. Backed by the army, Belaúnde scraped into power with a bare 39% of the vote, and ranged against him were two men capable of destroying his fragile government-old-time APRA Party Chieftain Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 69, and ex-Dictator Manuel Odría, 66. Both had been candidates against Belaúnde, ripped him as a "demagogue," even tried to pin a Red tag on him when leftists joined his coalition party. Following their defeat, Haya and Odría still...