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Tempers flared as the long column wound through the Liaquatabad quarter, largely inhabited by Moslem refugees from India who had strongly backed the opposition's spinster candidate, Fatima Jinnah, 71. Soon, the Pathans poured from the trucks to attack passersby, loot shops and set fire to homes. By the time the rioting ended, 33 people were dead, 300 wounded and more than 2,000 homeless...
Credit was due both to Zik, the Easterner and Christian, and to Sir Abubakar, the Moslem from the North, for a level of statesmanship seldom found in nations hardly accustomed to peaceful resolution of such weighty matters...
Realistically, Nigeria has never been a nation in much more than name. It is divided into three mutually suspicious ethnic areas, the semifeudal but dominant Moslem Northern Region, the enterprising and oil-rich Eastern Region, home of the clever Ibo tribesmen, and the relatively urbane Mid-Western and Western regions, where sophisticated Yoruba leaders like to say, "We are the English of Nigeria, clever and diplomatic, no final commitments and always a foot in each camp." And despite its democratic facade, Nigerian politics is little more than a raw power struggle between two shifting alliances of regional and tribal parties...
...populous north, the Moslem ruler, whose title is the Sardauna (Field Marshal) of Sokoto-the real power behind Prime Minister Balewa-removed all elements of chance. Aware that the north's 167 seats alone were enough to guarantee the N.N.A. continued control of the House, the Sardauna's police jailed 40 U.P.G.A. candidates on spurious charges, and election officials refused to register at least 20 others. The lonely opposition candidates remaining were turned away from hotels and restaurants all over the north, denied entrance to public buildings-and even found police roadblocks barring their way to the next...
...Lebanon, second only to Switzerland as a freewheeling money market. Beirut bankers are convinced that they can often glimpse the future in the movement of money. Last week they were glimpsing harder than ever. As one banker explained, "It's just before the Ramadan, the month-long Moslem fast when people tend to be jittery. This is the scheming season...