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...Shotgun Marriage. A tiny territory of 75 sq. mi. and 285,000 people, Aden sits at the southern edge of Southern Arabia, a wind-blasted wasteland of undefined borders and unrefined sheiks...
Britain's plans for independence apply to the whole South Arabian Federation, which includes not only Aden but 16 sheikdoms. The trouble is that Aden's link with the Federation was a shotgun marriage that neither the Adenis nor the sheikdoms want any part of once they win independence. Aden fears that the sheikdoms will drain off the relative prosperity it enjoys as a major world port. The sheiks claim that they do not have enough say in the Federation government, and that Aden has too much. The government, a collection of moderates installed by the British...
...Tetched." In 1962, Meredith risked his life in the battle to integrate the University of Mississippi. Last year, while taking a "march against fear" through his home state, he had shotgun pellets fired into him by a white racist. But from far-off Bimini, Powell, whose zestful pursuit of the sporting life has betrayed the Negroes' trust in him for years, branded Meredith as the "white man's candidate...
Last week's violence was touched off by the shotgun assassination of one FLOSY supporter and a bomb blast that killed three young sons of its leader, Abdul Qawee Mackawee, who is in self-imposed exile in the Egyptian-controlled part of Yemen. Later, two snipers in a mosque minaret fired upon some of the 12,000 mourners in a street funeral procession for Mackawee's sons; a mob rushed up to their perch and hurled them to the street, where they were trampled to death. Though the nationalists seemed to be maiming one another at first...
Died. Raoul Levy, 44, penny-ante French film producer, who made a mint out of Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, after which the law of averages straightened out; by his own hand (16-gauge shotgun); in Saint-Tropez, France (see SHOW BUSINESS...