Word: clansmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest battle was between the predominantly Moslem community of Tripoli (pop. 200,000) and Christians from the mountain town of Zgharta (pop. 12,000) five miles away. It erupted after a seemingly trivial incident: a minor auto accident involving Tripoli and Zgharta drivers. After a Zghartawi was assaulted, armed clansmen threw up a roadblock on the outskirts of Tripoli and halted traffic. When a bus carrying some 25 Moslems reached the roadblock, gunmen herded the passengers into the road. Without warning, a guerrilla opened fire with a submachine gun, slaughtering twelve Moslems...
...sensibly loony scheme by which everyone in the country would get a new middle name and a lot of new relatives chosen arbitrarily by computer. The names would be words like Daffodil, Chromium, and so on, and they would signify clans. Each Daffodil would have 19,999 fellow clansmen spread out around the U.S. to be treated as relatives: to be cared for, cursed, feuded with, borrowed from, nursed, loved and hated. To be taken notice of in a human way is the author's idea, and it is by no means the worst idea put between hard covers...
...children, particularly, another delight is the "Folk Life Festival," which is devoted to U.S. and Canadian ethnic groups and their crafts. In one section, aromatic with Scottish haggis* acooking, clansmen show how to make bagpipes, boots, quilts and kilts, and invite youngsters to join in. In another section there are Indian tepees and longhouses, and a sluice where kids can pan for gold...
...toothy Kennedy smile, tossing the thick Kennedy mane and speaking in the metallic Kennedy accent, did Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver sound the old Kennedy rallying call last week. She candidly admits that her husband Sargent Shriver, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, created a certain coolness among some Kennedy clansmen by staying on to serve in both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations and not sufficiently pitching in to aid Bobby's 1968 campaign. Nothing, however, takes the chill off as quickly as a hotly contested political race for high stakes. "There have been problems," says Eunice. "I acknowledge that...