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...lean, 68-year-old law professor's Christian Democrats are 25 votes short of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. They have 274 seats. Even with the support promised by the Liberals, with 17 seats, Segni would be eight votes shy. The Monarchists are split in two parties with a total of 25 votes...
...that, beyond a certain point, Africa's problems become not so much those between blacks and whites as between Africans themselves. For generations French West Africans have feared the Senegalese, who were among the first to join the French in subduing them. The Senegalese in turn fear the lean, desert-dwelling Moors, who are fighting men with a long tradition of trading in slaves. In Houphouet-Boigny's Ivory Coast there have been recent race riots against African immigrants from Togoland and Dahomey...
...fanatical Arab nationalist, Aref campaigned from the early days of the revolution for speedy union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. Kassem, a lean, brooding soldier with no political experience, wanted to keep Iraq independent of Cairo, and to fight off the Arab nationalist pressures made common cause with the Communists, who now control the street mobs of Baghdad. The two "brothers" fought, and Aref found himself accused of conspiring against the state and of trying to assassinate Kassem...
Joining LaRusso at forward will be rugged Gary Vandeweghe, a solid all-around performer. At center will be Dave Farnsworth, who matches the varsity's McClellan in size, and in the back-court will be two excellent veterans, stocky Walt Sosnowski and lean Chuck Kaufman, both averaging in double figures and playing first-rate defense...
...lunch, but in their restaurants and homes Belgians fell silent as the youthful voice, how and then shaking slightly with emotion, came over the radio. Later, 4,200 miles away in Léopoldville, blacks and whites heard the same words blaring over the loudspeakers of sound trucks. Lean, spectacled King Baudouin had taken it upon himself to explain in person his government's long-awaited program to give independence to the Congo, that vast land 80 times the size of Belgium, that was once his great granduncle's personal fief. Only a week before, nationalists had been...