Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vague Smoke Screen. He brought one new concession to the Israelis-at least one that has never before been offered quite so explicitly by an Arab leader. In a talk to Washington's National Press Club, Hussein promised Israel guarantees of free passage through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba as part of a six-point Arab plan for settlement. Since only Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser could deliver on that particular promise, Hussein was clearly speaking for Egypt as well as Jordan. Nasser and Hussein had, in fact, jointly prepared...
...cold dawn, it all becomes clear. The Communists have refused to allow themselves to be duped into governing, knowing full well, as do all Italians, that Italy is essentially ungovernable. Longo and his friends leave the Premier's office. The Communist leader is saying wistfully to his deputy: "It would have been nice, though, and you could have been Prime Minister. Too bad. Moscow said the balance of power in Europe should not be destroyed...
...international big-budget project. It is difficult to see where the money went. Certainly little of it was spent developing the story. In an army camp, circa 1945, a British major (David Niven) tries to impose order on an overflow of displaced persons. From the serried ranks a leader named Janovic emerges. As played by Topol, he is a sleight-of-tongue artist. Janovic can lie in a dozen languages and seduce a girl with the drop of a decibel. He is also a deserter from the Russian army...
...Beecher Pratt, a timid, fat, white Episcopal priest who leaves a cloistered, scholarly life to take over a crumbling empty church in the imagined Harlem of the 1970s. There Pratt becomes inextricably involved with an anti-white Negro organization called the Horn Power Movement and its dynamic but tormented leader, George Horn Smith. Middleweight champion of the world, orator, professed illiterate and economic genius, Smith is a man possessed of a freakish protuberance-an eleven-inch horn jutting from his forehead...
...Horn has maintained a secret hideout for years, the two men finally reveal themselves to each other. Pratt has always been a misfit-he says-though he does have the courage to admit his fears and weakness. Horn emerges as a dabbler in medieval studies and essentially a moderate leader, doomed to be destroyed by more brutal and extremist forces. These exchanged confidences, however, offer no comfort...