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Harrington's district is the North Shore including cities and towns like Lynn, Rockport, Salem, Gloucester and Marblehead. In 1969, Harrington carried the District by winning substantial victories in the cities like Lynn and almost winning the rock-ribbed Republican towns. Harrington's victory, in short, was the result of a strong organizational effort by regular Democrats led by his brother State Senator Kevin Harrington, combined with enthusiastic work by the "New Politics" people, who were especially effective in the smaller towns...
...broader world, Nasser may fare better. Islam is, after all, based on the notion of what Arabist Salem calls "a perfect community." Through the unifying force of the Arabic tongue, Nasser the master orator did much to restore that sense of community after centuries of foreign rule had seemingly shattered it for all time...
...Arab masses were concerned, there was little that the boss could not accomplish. His great value, Arabist Elie Salem of Beirut's American University points out, "was not so much what he did, but what he meant to people." To most, he meant hope. "Saladin achieved success through his political and diplomatic skill," says Salem, "but there was no question of identifying with the masses. Since the time of the Prophet, Nasser was the first leader to address himself to the shaab, the forgotten masses, rather than to the intellectuals." The masses saw him as the hero who would unify...
...Nasser. Minister of National Guidance and Al Ahram Editor Hasanein Heikal urged the President to slow down. "There are men, women and children dying," Nasser replied. "We are in a race with death." Later, as Nasser drove to Cairo airport to bid goodbye to Kuwait's Emir Sabah es Salem es Sabah, last of the captains and kings to depart from the summit, Heikal again pleaded with his boss to take a rest...
Friday morning at 8 p.m., Gilday surprised Mrs. Ruth Palmer, a 79-year-old widow, in her car and forced her to drive him to Salem, where he let her off and sped away...