Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major cities-Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi and Madras-has its own similarities and its own distinctions. Calcutta and Bombay are linked in their visual splendor and their vicious slums; wealth and poverty exist cool cheek by grizzled jowl. Madras, with its burgeoning Hindu evangelism (backed by Shastri's strongman, Congress Party President Kumaraswami Kamaraj), is less metropolitan but more leisurely. Where Bombay is sparked by its Parsi businessmen (descended from 8th century Persian fire worshipers), Madras is tempered by Tamil intellectualism. New Delhi-founded in 1911 by the British -is the youngest of the nation's great cities...
...Cairo Publisher Mustafa Amin reported exuberantly that his nation's new revolutionary regime was the first "honest, democracy-loving government in 5,000 years of Egyptian his tory." Nasser soon proved him wrong, but for years the personable, pro-Western Amin remained close to Egypt's strongman. He was sent to Beirut on a top-secret mission to seek an end to the Suez war, served as Nasser's adviser on a trip to the U.N. In 1962, long after all Cairo papers had been nationalized, Nasser signed a decree restoring him as publisher...
...former colony, Algeria. Locked in that country's Sahara Desert is 1% of the world's proven reserves-more than 3.6 billion barrels-and 79 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, about 10% of the world's known supply. Colonel Houari Boumedienne, Algeria's new strongman, has been as anxious to get French development help as Ahmed ben Bella before him, and last week in Paris the two governments buried their bitter memories of the Algerian war and reached a tentative agreement that is all but certain to be signed within a month. The deal gives...
CLOAK OF MYSTERY (NBC 9-10 p.m.) Repeat of "The Fugitive Eye, with Charl ton Heston playing a one-eyed circus strongman who attempts to convince po lice he has spotted a corpse moldering in a car and three gravediggers working nearby...
...anyone else had said what Nasser said today, Arabs would have branded him a traitor to the cause. But Nasser says it, and we accept it." Not everyone agreed. The Baathist regime in Syria persisted in calling for mass action against Israel. At a Damascus rally, Syrian Strongman Amin Hafez sneered at Nasser as "the self-proclaimed pioneer of Arab nationalism." Cried Hafez: "What is he waiting for? I went to the first Arab summit 18 months ago under the impression that the conference would lay down plans to liberate Palestine. Instead we were faced with a plan to divert...