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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kamal Jumblatt, 39, a hereditary chief of Druse mountain tribesmen and ex-Cabinet minister, formed his own socialist party in 1949, later backed the movement that installed Chamoun in office. A somewhat intellectual and moody mountaineer who studied in Paris and took to visiting an Indian ashram after his first parting with Chamoun, he now controls the south central area of Lebanon for the opposition. Chamoun's ultimate insult, he claims, was to deny him his ancestral parliamentary seat in last year's elections. As leader of a heretical Moslem sect, he is no friend to Islamic...
...Nothing, Nothing. Discharged from the army late in 1945, Krim went home to the Kabylia and plunged into the nationalist movement. The French claim he became a bandit after killing a man who won the garde champètre job that he coveted. Krim denies the story, says he was wanted by the police for nationalist agitation, and fled to the hills to escape a two-year jail sentence for "an attack on French sovereignty." From then on Krim and his colleagues started preparing military rebellion...
...votes and the Social Democrats' 22 votes still fell four short of a majority in the Chamber. With the votes of one French-speaking and three German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement, Fanfani presumably could count on a precarious majority of two. But the left-of-center Republicans and the right-wing Monarchists have indicated that they will abstain on the initial vote of confidence in order to assure Fanfani's investiture...
...relieved of his parish. When Perón turned against the church, he shed his cassock and organized anti-Perón resistance. In July 1956, with Perón booted out of Argentina, Father Cucchetti went to Italy, talked over his idea for a Christian-Jewish brotherhood movement with Vatican officials. Next he visited Israel. Back in Buenos Aires several weeks later, he launched his first trial balloon, a message in La Prensa: "Judaism and Christianity are two sides of one mountain at the summit of which is the idea of the Messiah...
Haloed Cabbage. Ford records the early history of the spiritualist movement in the U.S., when it was chivvied by police. Today the law is more tolerant and scientists less skeptical of psychic phenomena. Non-spiritualists, however, will still be depressed by the sad fact that spirits sometimes choose to communicate with the living in such down-at-heel language; it suggests that a lot of education goes to waste when people...