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Since the Sardauna had no interest in settling in Lagos among the "southern barbarians," Abubakar became the protector of northern interests in the capital. Grudgingly, he went along with federal unity to the extent of becoming Minister of Works. "From the start he was the best minister of them all," recalls a British civil servant. "He did his homework and sent his paperwork through swiftly." But he remained a northerner, not a Nigerian...
...press gallery, set up a wild cheering calculated to convince radio listeners in Havana that Fidel was sweeping the world's assembled statesmen off their feet. No Conclusions. Khrushchev's overriding purpose last week-if he had one-was to establish himself as the friend and protector of all the uncommitted. His plan to replace the office of Secretary-General with a three-headed executive composed of one Westerner, one Communist and one neutralist was more than just a scheme to get rid of Dag Hammarskjold and reduce the U.N. to impotence; it was also calculated to appeal...
...speaking before the United Nations Security Council, labeled the U.S. a "butcher'' and asked for U.N. action to head off what he said was a theoretical Yankee invasion. Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev chimed in to renew Premier Khrushchev's claim to be Cuba's protector...
...next Governor. Sanford, manager of the late, liberal Senator Kerr Scott's successful campaign in 1954, had painstakingly built the smoothest county-by-county organization seen in three decades. Endorsed by most of the state's newspapers, he appealed to city folk and labor unions as a protector of the public schools ("We need massive intelligence, not massive resistance"), attracted Piedmont bankers and textile manufacturers with his go-getting industrial program, got overwhelming support from North Carolina's 160,000 Negro voters...
...Morel with a passion for elephants. The creation of French Novelist Romain Gary, in his novel The Roots of Heaven, Morel had brooded in a Nazi concentration camp, conceived such a blazing reverence for life that, once freed, he took off for Darkest Africa to become a self-appointed protector of wild beasts threatened with extermination by onrushing civilization...