Word: clan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three leading families of Zghorta are the rich and influential Franjiehs, the ancient and patrician Karams, and the fertile Moawads, who outnumber each of the others. For centuries the three feuding clans have been fighting-now pairing off in expedient alliances, now breaking away to fight again. In recent years a fourth clan, the Dweihis. has risen from plebeian obscurity to join the fray. The newcomers entered the ring with considerable credentials. "About 70% of the criminal cases arising in the Zghorta district," said a court officer in Tripoli, some five miles away, "involve members of the Dweihi clan...
Armored Priest. Nevertheless, the Dweihis are as reverent as their neighbors, and the present hero of the clan is a handsome, burly, young (35) Maronite priest named Simaan, who usually totes a large pistol on his clerical rounds, and seldom travels without an escort of four or five gun-packing kinsmen. In the current elections taking place on four successive Sundays in Lebanon (TIME, June 24), Father Simaan Dweihi is a candidate for Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice...
...play the tragedienne. Don't lie" -did Mamma finally admit what the whole Montesi clan had been trying to conceal-the fact that Wilma had often been invited out for rides by her Uncle Giuseppe, a 32-year-old government functionary who fancies himself a Don Juan...
...Spot. All this was too much for the militant progressives of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal (Independence) Party. Worried about a nationwide drought which has cut food supplies, concerned over growing unemployment in the cities as French capital withdraws, the Istiqlal looked upon the gathering of the Glaoui clan as both an exasperation and an opportunity to divert discontent. Pointing to the "feudal lords" and "collaborators" driving their big cars through the hungry countryside, trade unionists shouted in the streets of Marrakech: "El Glaoui's wealth must be returned to the people...
Hussein, like his people, is a figure caught between two worlds, and inside himself plays out many of the conflicts which rend the Middle East. He is the scion of one of Islam's proudest families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms...