Word: politician
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Because New York's aging (66) Democratic Governor Averell Harriman has turned out to be a tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman...
Across the river, in Khartoum's sister city of Omdurman,*inside a mud-walled courtyard cut off from the street by a corrugated iron door and guarded by a somnolent sentry, an intelligent, tough and tenacious Sudanese politician sat on the edge of a sagging couch, downed numberless cups of coffee as he conferred busily with a steady flow of visitors. His Excellency Sayed Abdullah Khalil wants to win next month's election for his Umma (Nation) Party and keep the post he now holds: Prime Minister of the Sudan...
Split at Midriff. Khalil is a soldier turned politician. A onetime brigadier in the Sudan Defense Force under the British, he fought at Gallipoli in World War I, in the western desert and Italy in World War II. As a politician, he presides over a constituency that is one of the world's most complex. The Sudan is nearly four times as large (967,500 sq.mi.) as Texas, has a population (10.2 million) less than that of the New York metropolitan area. From Wadi Haifa, astride the Nile at the Egyptian border, the Sudan stretches south 1,250 miles...
Though some of Khalil's critics recall the time he edited the speech of a rival politician by indicating with the muzzle of his pistol the lines to be deleted, he has slowly built up increasingly solid support for his policies. Nine months ago Khalil felt unable to sign up for U.S. aid when U.S. Special Ambassador James P. Richards offered it under the Eisenhower Doctrine. But last month he announced acceptance of U.S. technical aid under the U.S. Mutual Security Program. And the Sudan's cotton crop, which Khalil refused to mortgage to the Russians for arms...
...Khalil and the Umma Party will be a conglomeration of rival political and religious factions, chief of which is the National Unionist Party headed by short, shrewd Sayed Ismail el Azhari, an ex-schoolteacher and longtime nationalist whom the British once jailed ("In a backward country, prison is the politician's university, and I graduated," he says). El Azhari, who is an alumnus of the American University of Beirut, was financed largely with Egyptian money in the Sudan's last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt. His followers talk an anticolonial line that...