Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buganda area, largest of the four former tribal kingdoms within Uganda. In transforming his country into a republic, Obote has harshly suppressed many of Buganda's people. Three years ago, Obote's troops drove the once powerful Kabaka of Buganda, who was known as "King Freddie," from his palace in Kampala...
Until the overthrow of King Idris last September, Libya was an oasis of Western opportunity between Egypt and Algeria. But in the four months since a group of young army officers seized power, much of that has changed. Last week U.S. Ambassador Joseph Palmer acceded to the wishes of Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who demanded that the U.S. withdraw entirely from Wheelus airbase outside the city. The base was used for bombing and gunnery training for NATO-assigned U.S. fighter squadrons. In similar sessions, the British also agreed to give up smaller bases at Tobruk and El Adem...
...techniques commonly used to seduce readership; for instance, the only photographs in Le Monde are those in advertisements. But if Le Monde looks as unpalatable as absinthe, it can be equally habit-forming. Among the 470,000 addicts who take it daily: Pope Paul, the Shah of Iran, the King of Nepal, and the Presidents of Pakistan and South Korea...
Churchmen have been visible enough: Martin Luther King preaching his dream, Dan and Phil Berrigan raiding draft boards, William Coffin marching for peace, Father Groppi summoning his people out of the ghetto. Even so, the failure of the churches at large to deal with the social and psychological condition of mankind seems to many to reflect a decline of decision and direction. The prevalent eroticism in the arts, sexual permissiveness, the drug culture, the rise in crime and other violence, the increase in petty dishonesty ?all point to the erosion of the churches' moral authority. With gallows humor...
...Martin Luther King's jailing in Birmingham, Ala., which gave new respectability to the strategy of disobedience to unjust laws...