Word: great-grandson
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Uncle v. Nephew. Though he is a great-grandson of the Mahdi whose howling hordes overran General "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum in 1885, Sadik has shown himself to be a man of tolerance. In 1965 he worked closely with Mahgoub in banning the Communist Party because a Sudanese Communist had made a slanderous remark about the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. But within his own Umma Party, the young Mahdi speaks for religious toleration for the south. His chief rival within the Umma is his uncle, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, 47, who advocates a tougher policy toward the rebels...
...toward self-help and less toward the dole approach. "If you give a man a handout," he maintains, "you establish a chain of dependence and lack of self-respect that won't be broken easily. If that is the situation of the grandfather, then the son, the grandson, the great-grandson will probably be in the same desperate, dreary situation. But when a man wins self-respect, then everything else falls into place...
...most altruistic, there are the Peace Corps and the 14 domestic service programs. "Here is a real, positive outlet," says Gibbs Kinderman, 23, who with his wife Kathy, 24, daughter of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., directs a poverty program in Appalachia. Laurance Rockefeller Jr., 22, great-grandson of John D., obliquely justifies his work as a $22.50-a-week VISTA volunteer in Harlem: "Beyond affluence, what?" Answers Co-Worker Tweed...
Roosevelt, 24, great-grandson of Teddy...
...crisis was brought to a head by Oxford-educated Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, 28, who was left little more than a figurehead monarch by his country's new constitution. As the namesake and great-grandson of the founder of Basutoland, Moshoeshoe (pronounced Mo-shway-shway) reckoned that he rated a better break...