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...Maronite priest named Simaan, who usually totes a large pistol on his clerical rounds, and seldom travels without an escort of four or five gun-packing kinsmen. In the current elections taking place on four successive Sundays in Lebanon (TIME, June 24), Father Simaan Dweihi is a candidate for Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice as Lebanon's Foreign Minister, is now the leading Christian spokesman for the opposition, and dearly wants to succeed incumbent Camille Chamoun...
...more democracy than has existed in Egypt since he seized power in July 1952. For 22 days a three-man council headed by General Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's top military man, had been weeding out undesirables among the 2,508 candidates who filed for the 350-man Parliament in next week's elections. Last week, after Nasser himself had given the list a final pruning, the council announced the 1,322 survivors who would be allowed to submit themselves to the voters...
...were guided by simple principles. All "imperialist, reactionary and opportunist elements" were eliminated. Amateurs who entered only for publicity were not tolerated. Some were eliminated for their own good, such as one fellah who sold his water buffalo and two-thirds of an acre of land to run for Parliament; the council rejected him in a kindly way on the grounds that he should not waste his substance in a candidacy which they considered hopeless. When other grounds failed, candidates were stricken off "for considerations of the National Union or certain policies"-that is, they were opposing men Nasser wanted...
While Tory John Diefenbaker shouted "Buccaneers!" and Trade Minister C. D. Howe roared "Who's going to stop us?", Canada's Liberals a year ago bulled legislation through Parliament for a pipeline to carry natural gas across the country from the Alberta fields. Though Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. was a private enterprise, the Liberal government generously agreed to build the Northern Ontario section of the line, which the promoters gloomily called "uneconomic," and even lent Trans-Canada $50 million when it claimed to be hard up. Only last week did the full measure of the big deal...
This curious and amusing book is billed as a novel, but might just as accurately be called a memoir, a short-story collection or a religious tract. The 37-year-old author is the daughter of Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem...