Word: headman
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...Yugoslavs took pains to inform the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office that the visit would not affect Yugoslavia's "cordial and good relations with the West." But all in all, it was quite a coup for Communism's No. i renegade: never before had Headman Khrushchev traveled beyond the border of Kremlin-styled Communism. Tito was probably too cagey to put his head all the way into the bear's mouth. But at the very least, he seemed to be very busy at the old Balkan game of playing off major powers, in hope...
...education (University of Chicago), makes his home in London's Buckingham Palace Road but keeps in close touch with Ny-asaland's native politicians. Most of the chieftains back Banda's Congress (those who don't are being deposed, like the headman at Chitera) and listen to his admonitions to resist but not to kill...
...cops housed the gallows in a corrugated iron stockade with only the gallows bar peeping over the top. Nearby, in a makeshift corrugated iron cell, they penned eight Mau Mau tribesmen, convicted of the murder of three officials: a Negro policeman, a Negro agricultural adviser and a Kikuyu headman...
...leaving one uniformed Israeli dead. Six nights later, Israeli units hit Falama again. They blew open its protective barbed wire and clobbered it with mortars for almost three hours in one of the biggest attacks since the war's end. Ten Arabs were wounded and the village muktar (headman) killed. In violation of the armistice, the Israelis then began sending warplanes over Jordan, followed a few days later with the seizure of a vacated Arab college in no man's land. MAC officers who tried to investigate were obstructed by the Israelis...
...sought out their chief, Hinga Hinga, who was recovering from a Mau Mau ambush, and shot him dead in his bed. A white farmer, returning home to find his house a shambles, unearthed a crude Mau Mau note: "God must love you. We wanted your head." They got his headman's: it rolled over the farmer's boots when he flung open the door of the headman...