Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side was President Camille Chamoun, a Christian of the Maronite Roman Catholic sect, with all the claims upon U.S. good will of a stoutly pro-Western leader who has led his little country from its Swiss-modeled neutrality at the heart of the Arab world to all-out espousal of the Eisenhower Doctrine. On the other were the rebel politicians, some of them professional Moslems who have been photographed in the forefront of practically every Arab nationalist gathering that Nasser has assembled over the last few years in Cairo. In between was Lebanon's little army, largely Christian-officered...
Confidence. But while everyone in Italy knew of Amintore Fanfani's ambition, Fanfani himself never once mentioned it. He appealed to crowds to "Vote for the Christian Democrats." never asked them to "Vote for Fanfani." Despite his organizing talent, the quick mind of a man who was formerly a professor of economics at Milan's Catholic University, and his years of ministerial experience in postwar governments, Fanfani has more enemies than friends among his own party's leadership...
...unquestioned devoutness is a target in a campaign marked by anticlerical attacks. His New-Dealish social program makes him unpalatable to conservative Christian Democrats. His all-out organizing methods antagonize the other democratic middle-road parties, whose support has been essential to Christian Democratic rule since 1953 (he lasted only twelve days in his one fling at the premiership four years ago). A recent poll showed that not Fanfani, the party leader, but former Premier and now Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella is the most popular Christian Democrat in Italy...
Control. In an Italy prosperous and generally content, the Christian Democrats were expected to lead next week's election returns, but not even Fanfani foresees a majority that would allow his party to rule alone. Under new election laws, the Christian Democrats must win almost a million more votes than in 1953 just to hold the 261 seats they now have in the Chamber of Deputies. They are in the awkward position of asking Italians to vote for a party that does not yet know whom it will nominate for Premier. Adone Zoli, the present caretaker Premier, has indicated...
...Marlon Brando, 34, cinemactor, and India-born Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 23, who denies strong evidence that she was little Joanie O'Callaghan when her father, an Irish employee of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, enrolled her in school in Darjeeling: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Christian...