Word: fiefs
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...onetime member of Ben Bella's ruling Politburo and the Algerian army's general staff. A tough, capable guerrilla leader during Algeria's 71-year war with France, Chaabani had turned the Aures and part of the Sahara south of the range into his personal fief. His men-historically mutinous Chaouia tribesmen whose ancestors had rebelled against Romans, Byzantines and Arabs alike-are equipped with armored cars, tanks and artillery, thus representing a more serious military threat to Ben Bella than the 2,000 Berber rebels under Hocine Ait Ahmed's command in the Great Kabylia...
...Vanzetti in their Massachusetts murder trial, was a judge at the Nurnberg war-crimes trials, is so ardent an anti-Communist that he once implored baseball's Cincinnati Reds to change their nickname. With the Philadelphia machine behind him, Musmanno easily wrapped up Dave Lawrence's Pittsburgh fief, won the state committee's endorsement...
...last major outlaw remaining at large is Pedro Antonio Marín, 32, who goes under the aliases of "Marulanda" and "Tiro Fijo" (''Sure Shot"). A bragging Communist, he leads a band of 300 and rules a fief in the hills of south western Colombia by both persuasion and force. The army is cutting away his peasant support with a program of roads, medical aid and agricultural advice. Patrols are pressing the hunt...
...Dinh Can seemed to be the ablest of the ill-fated Ngo brothers. Although he never held an official position in the Diem regime, he was the overlord of central Viet Nam. A rural Rasputin in high-collared mandarin robes who wenched and swindled lustily, he nevertheless ran his fief so effectively that it had less trouble from the Viet Cong than any other area. Can in vain advised his brothers, President Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, to ease the measures against the Buddhists-not out of idealism but to avoid rocking the boat...
...Canada's industry and natural resources are dominated by outsiders from the U.S. or English Canada. Economically, the rest of the country boomed, while in the 1940s and 1950s Quebec lagged-partly through its own doing. The late Premier Maurice Duplessis ruled the province as a corrupt, inbred fief...