Word: politicians
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Once ruled by powerful ancient kings, Dahomey is the cradle of the Haitian voodoo gods that African slaves brought with them to the Caribbean. While many a Dahoman politician still consults his feticheur as he would a staff aide, General Soglo's own particular fetishes were not of the traditional kind. He lately had taken to pinching real dolls rather than wooden ones, including an overripe Elizabeth Taylor when she was in Dahomey early this year to film The Comedians. The sturdy strongman also had a habit of belching rather loudly at state banquets, at times has urged...
...suit. Over the objections of Ben-Gurion-who still refuses to be associated with Eshkol "on personal and moral grounds"-a Rafi convention voted reluctantly to rejoin Mapai. The man behind the move was Dayan, whose one-eyed glamour and tooth-for-a-tooth toughness have made him the politician most likely to succeed at the polls-but without the support of Eshkol, who has always resented his dissident support of Ben-Gurion. That left only the leftist Mapam party out of the grand labor reunion. Eshkol has already started conversations to see what can be done about that...
Deserting the Ship. Some observers are so convinced Johnson will be beaten next year that they have already concluded he is a lame duck in aspic. "Lots of so-called friends are deserting his ship," said one politician, "the way they were deserting Harry Truman's in 1948 and 1952." Still, it would be unwise to count the President out-or even to rate him an underdog. Despite the challenge from Minnesota Democrat...
Once a member of the late Hugh Gaitskell's "Hampstead set" of Laborite intellectuals, he has written biographies of Herbert Asquith, Clement Attlee and Sir Charles Dilke, the Victorian politician whose career was ruined by scandal. Jenkins appeals to a wide assortment of people, including businessmen, who regard him as a seasoned administrator, and members of London's exclusive clubs, who approve of his elegant tastes for good claret and cozy dinners...
Part of the reason this high-pressure campaign has stymied turns on Ritter himself. Ritter reminds one of a Tammany Hall boss, a wheeling, dealing politician who knows the workings of the OAS inside out. But many feel he doesn't have the stature needed to put life and drive into an organization which today suffers badly from its own impotence and lack of imagination. Privately, most of his supporters are said to admit Ritter's failings, and two Central American republics, El Salvador and Guatemala, abandoned him somewhere during the four ballotings. It is these two votes that would...