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Other appealing candidates stand only the barest chance in the voting. One is Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 56, a black priest from Benin (formerly Dahomey), who was consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...
...Morocco, then going on to incursions in Mexico and Indochina. In victory, the legion created a legend. In 1837, one battalion seized the supposedly impenetrable Algerian citadel of Constantine, perched atop a 1,000-ft. crag. Half a century later, another Foreign Legion battalion defeated 10,000 devil-worshiping Dahomey troops, including units of ferocious, bare-breasted women who shot, knifed, bayoneted and bit off the noses of the legionnaires. Even in France's humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the legionnaires electrified their adopted country by their heroism in the face of overwhelming enemy forces...
...became apparent that the resolution would fall one short of the nine votes required for passage in the 15-member Council. The U.S. and Britain and possibly Italy, Japan and Sweden would have opposed it; France would also have abstained; China, the U.S.S.R., Pakistan, Libya, Tanzania, Benin (formerly Dahomey), Rumania and Guyana would have voted for it. Rather than suffer certain defeat, the Africans did not demand a vote on their resolution. The U.S. and Britain, however, insisted on a vote on their broad counterproposal condemning all terrorism. It was defeated handily, receiving backing from only Italy, Sweden, Japan...
...smoke-eyed cast. Deodatus Village is a half-dressed epitome of black buckdom. The strumpet he struts for is whore-cum-ballet-dancer Stephanie Virtue Secret-rose Diop--"Virtue" for short, which neatly sums up the situation. The curate Diouf pleads for passive religious acceptance; Felicity Trollop Pardon shrieks "Dahomey!" and "Africa!" with an epileptic frenzy; Augusta Snow says little and wears anger like a nimbus round her pout-mouthed head. Genet further burlesque's white perceptions of black names by dubbing the mysterious revolutionary "Newport News." Adelaide Bobo assists emcee-director Archibald and they begin to organize the evening...
Meanwhile, South Africa's growing involvement in the war appeared to be hampering efforts by the F.N.L.A.-UNITA forces to gain recognition for their own government in Huambo (formerly Nova Lisboa). Although the Organization of African Unity remains neutral in the conflict, three more members -Nigeria, Tanzania and Dahomey (which last week changed its name to the Republic of Benin)-have in the past fortnight recognized the M.P.L.A.'S Luanda government because of South Africa's backing of F.N.L.A.-UNITA. Their action brings to 16 the number of African countries that have recognized the M.P.L.A.; at week...