Word: chieftains
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...went their separate ways. For the past six months the activities of both factions have been confined to a few raids on local cowherds. A refugee captured by Kenya police as he left Kimathi's camp recently has provided a vivid picture of the once great chieftain in his twilight hour. Broken in health and mind, 35-year-old Dedan Kimathi now spends his days making wild speeches to the jungle trees and his nights raving endlessly. He lies on a litter of branches, blubbering and blabbering about reform in the Liberation army, while his friends search the woods...
Died. Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, eightyish, wily Pasha of Marrakech; of cancer; in Marrakech, Morocco. Berber Chieftain El Glaoui was named Pasha in 1908 for helping depose his first Sultan, rode to immense wealth (estimated at $50 million) from tithes on almond, saffron and olive harvests, profits from stocks in French-run mines, rebates on imported cars and machinery, reputed revenue from 6,000 prostitutes. His power rested on 30,000 tribesmen whom he used to enforce French colonial policies. In 1953 El Glaoui, an astute sniffer of political winds, aided the French in selling out the legitimate...
...White House. Same for Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who might be Vice President some time, but should have checked his big move until 1960. In that year, the candidate of a labor-controlled Demo cratic Party will be elected President. His Democratic successor in 1964: Labor Chieftain Walter Reuther. As for Richard Nixon, Jeane Dixon doesn't "know why the Democrats hate him so, because he is riding a terribly high planet ... is an instrument for good [and] will become a very real power in our Government...
...nationalists, as representative of ex-Sultan Ben Youssef. But French colonists feared the influence of Si Bekkai, whom they regarded as a dangerous extremist. Final solution was to dilute Si Bekkai's influence by adding not one but two more "moderate" members-one a young (38), obscure Berber chieftain called Si Tahar ou Ali Assou Loudyi, the other an old (71), respected jurist and doctor of Koranic law, Si Mohammed Sbihi. The council's first task: to designate a Moroccan Premier to form a representative Moroccan government...
...packed little hall in the Saar mining town of Illingen crackled with excitement. Behind the stage, huge and threatening, a black eagle glared down from a red banner with the three initials of the new Saar Democratic Party (DPS) slashed white across its breast. Party Chieftain Heinrich Schneider, a stocky, sad-eyed lawyer of 48, bounded onto the platform to speak. The crowd of coal miners-yellow-haired youngsters and grizzled, Russian-front veterans-stiffened in anticipation, ready to jump frenziedly at his every hoarse shout...