Word: feudality
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...Southern students played a large part in massive demonstrations which desegregated public facilities in Baton Rouge. In 1969, they mounted a huge demonstration and boycott to protest the lack of black-oriented courses and to call for the end of near-feudal administration of the Southern University system. Once more, in the fall of 1972, black students at Southern sought mass action towards justice and resistance. A chronology of events lends some clarity to the importance of the students' efforts...
Dracula is a play about the 14th century feudal chieftain known for nailing hats into the skulls of people who refused to remove them in his presence. The play itself, when presented at the Loeb last spring, was pretty awful, but Boston being the center of Dracula studies that it is--the world's two leading authorities teach at B.U.--maybe it'll turn out better at the Theater 369. Performances nightly (except Monday) at 8. Info...
...remarkable in view of its members' differences. The Arab countries see oil as a political weapon to use against Israel; the non-Arab states see oil strictly as a commercial commodity. Within the Arab bloc, the radical states (Algeria, Libya and Iraq) often have political battles with the feudal monarchies (Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia). Iran and Iraq are on the verge of hostilities because of border disputes...
...been ruled by a Mir (or Prince) from the somnolent capital city of Baltit. From now on, though, they will be ruled by bureaucrats from Islamabad. Last week the Pakistan government, which already had taken responsibility for Hunza's external affairs, communications and defense, formally absorbed the ancient feudal principality without violence. The 40th Mir, one Mohammed Janal Khan, was put out of office and on a pension...
Love Affair. Ethiopia's rases (feudal lords) in 1916 chose Haile Selassie to be regent and heir to Empress Zauditu. Fourteen years later, when the Empress died suddenly, he was crowned the 255th Emperor of the Menelik line, which, legend claims, sprang more than 2,500 years ago from the celebrated love affair between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. For the next 44 years he ruled unchallenged, except for the Italian occupation and for a brief and abortive palace coup at the end of 1960. During his reign, the Emperor demanded all the obsequiousness due absolute power...