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...with them to make force decisive. While the proud barons quarreled, the Moslems were at last growing united. By 1176 the Emir Saladin made himself master of Egypt and Syria, and turned the full force of his armies against the Crusaders. Europe was far away, and Byzantium was now powerless to help...
...trans-Pacific voyage has provided anthropologists with a counter-thesis to the Kon-Tiki theory. By venturing from Peru to the Polynesian Islands by a powerless raft, the Kon-Tiki group attempted to prove that the Polynesians are descendants of the Peruvians. Davis maintains the contrary. He says that there are similarities in culture, but contends that a Polynesian Chief sailed to Peru, perhaps over the same route used by Davis. The chief and his associates traveled along the Peruvian coast, picking up the culture, and transplanted it in Polynesia. This thesis is in almost direct contradiction to the much...
...husband. There is a time to quit, just as there is a time to fight, she said. Her money was running out; she could no longer pay for Mustafa el Nahas' 20 secretaries. The next morning Nahas, once Egypt's greatest political force, was a trembling, powerless old man. The Naguib revolution rolled...
Politically powerless, the stoutly Roman Catholic Basques have rallied around their church as the last champion of their national rights. Their clergy, unlike the Spanish church, was overwhelmingly anti-Franco in the Civil War; the Franco government, in reprisal, executed 1.7 priests, imprisoned many others, and exiled the Basque Bishop of Vitoria. Although new Spanish bishops were sent to three Basque dioceses, the local clergy remained rebellious, went on teaching the catechism in the Basque language and talking about Basque national traditions from their pulpits-both serious crimes in the eyes of Franco's government...
Black Supremacy. When the Malan government launched its apartheid policies, Matthews denounced them and walked out of the powerless council. He and like-minded members of South Africa's mission-sponsored Christian Council have fought apartheid with Christian weapons, condemned it as "contrary to both natural law and the Christian revelation." But the moderates have been caught between whites and blacks with no patience for moderation...