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...teenager, Warren threw away the books. He was only a fair student but was captain of his high school football team and president of his class. He quit Northwestern University after his freshman year and moved to New York to study acting. Then as now, Beatty kept professional distance between himself and his sister. He told interviewers that "nobody likes to be in somebody else's shadow." He was also far from certain that he wanted the flashy career she already...
Zaïre is a classic example. Almost from the day of its birth in 1960, the country was plunged into a nightmare of mutiny, rebellion and bloodshed. The most dangerous incident was the attempted secession of Katanga, homeland of more than 1.5 million Lunda tribesmen, who also live in northwestern Zambia and eastern Angola. The rebellion was led by Mo'ise Tshombe, whose followers were seeking to preserve their mineral wealth from their enemies, the government in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) and the Bak-ongo tribes of the lower Congo. In those days the secessionists were thought to be rightists...
Brutus, who holds a tenured position in Northwestern's English department, said he believes the situation in South Africa is getting increasingly serious because of the accelerating tempo at which the white-minority government is arming itself and is becoming economically self-sufficient...
...Chicago the next day, Jewish leaders presented Begin with checks for Israel totaling $10 million. Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic made him an honorary citizen of Chicago, and Illinois Governor Jim Thompson made him an honorary citizen of the state. Northwestern University awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree. At the ceremony, Governor Thompson echoed President Kennedy by saying: "May you never fear to negotiate, but may you never negotiate out of fear...
...Northwestern, Begin ran into one of the few hostile demonstrations of the trip. Some 700 Palestinian sympathizers, composed of Arab, Iranian and Indian as well as American students, carried placards proclaiming ISRAELI BONDS BUY BOMBS. Earlier the student body had voted 1,199 to 907 against giving the degree to Begin because, by bestowing it, the university seemed to be taking sides in the Middle East dispute...