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...former merchant mariner who bore an uncanny resemblance to the late Heavyweight Boxer Sonny Listen, Karume came to power in a black-led revolution that overthrew the islands' Arab sultan in January 1964. Zanzibar, which lies 24 miles off the East African coast, united with mainland Tanganyika three months later to form the United Republic of Tanzania. The islands retained their own army and remained a tyrannical law unto themselves. Karume, a Moslem, became First Vice President of the union under Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere; in practice he remained the sole ruler of Zanzibar and rarely visited...
...King Hussein could announce that the sun was coming up tomorrow," a merchant in the Jordanian capital of Amman commented last week, "and Cairo Radio would be on the air ten minutes later denouncing the idea as a Zionist imperialist plot." Cairo Radio and almost every other Arab station in the Middle East were on the air last week criticizing Hussein for a different sort of announcement. The attacks were focused on his proposal (TIME, March 27) to divide his country into two autonomous regions-Palestine and Jordan-and to rename the combination the United Arab Kingdom...
Anderson was summoned to go on a mission. During the war Anderson shipped out with the Merchant Marine, then got accreditation as a correspondent. That led him to Communist-guerrilla country in China, but no newspaper was interested in his stories...
...Michael moved around a lot as a child. "I suppose that's where I first got a taste for the gypsy life," he explains. During his school years he became interested in acting, and one of his first stage appearances was in a student production of "The Merchant of Venice." He continued to do much Shakespeare, acting in "Hamlet," "Richard the Third" and "Julius Caesar" after he joined Michael Croft's National Youth Theater at the age of 16. The members of this stage company were teenagers -- or "young toughs and lay-abouts," as he calls them -- drawn from...
...Novelist Paul West-and his picture adorned the poorest living rooms in tiny fishing ports with names like Blow-me-down and Come-by-Chance. Newfoundland admired Joey simply for being his outrageous self: he would sneer at the Tories for being the "waffle-iron salesmen" of the merchant classes, and once, at a political rally, he took off his shoes and wiggled h;s toes to prove that "I don't have hooves and horns...