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...chiefs in the wilayas, who during the war won a certain amount of autonomy, and are reluctant to give it up to Benkhedda's Provisional Government. To reassert their voice, they have banded behind Ben Bella in his takeover bid, but they are perfectly capable of trying to shunt him aside too, should he attempt to exercise authority over them as did Benkhedda. Ben Bella's chief lever is his charismatic popularity with the masses; his power to maintain order is still an unknown quantity...
...Organization Minister. These institutional demands have had their effect on the seminaries. In the interest of "making Christianity relevant" and "vitalizing the curriculum," Berger charges, the divinity schools have tended to shunt the theology aside and substitute a welter of courses in sociology, psychology, church management and literature. The end product of such education is likely to be that thoroughly un-Christian figure-the organization minister...
Screamed London's evening paper headlines": FARES SHOCK! Sprouts & Privacy. Last week fare shocks and Tiddlydike nostalgia reached a record peak. Dr. Richard Beeching, the blunt, brusque businessman hired-for $67,000 a year, highest salary ever paid a British civil servant-to shunt the nationalized railways out of the red, announced a nationwide 10% fare boost...
Such a view is drastically simplified. It overlooks the fact that in animal societies, dominance, territory and status are generally interrelated, and there is no reason to assume human societies are less complex. These compulsions do not exist in a vacuum; a frustrated man cannot shunt his energy from one drive to the next until he finds an outlet...
...roof of Jerusalem's big, new community center building, green-capped security police peer down from behind machine-gun muzzles. Steel fences nine feet high keep passers-by away, and giant searchlights go on at night, bathing the neighborhood in glaring light. At the main entrance, guards shunt visitors through twelve cubicles for personal frisking. Upstairs, four stories above all his protectors and behind three barred doors, sits sallow Adolf Eichmann...