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During that period, much of the Kremlin's information about the Chinese came from Kao Rang, who was then the representative of the Chinese Politburo and the strongman in Manchuria. To win Mao's trust and friendship, Khrushchev says, Stalin gave Mao reports by the Soviet ambassador in Manchuria about his conversations with Kao, saying, "Here, you might be interested in these...
...strongman, Lieut. Colonel Seyni Kountie, 43, a former officer in the French army, publicly claimed it was the drought that did in Niger's democracy. He charged that the popularly elected government "lacked organization and initiative when confronted with the crisis." Kountie put President Diori under house arrest, dissolved the National Assembly, and banned all political activity. It was black Africa's 32nd coup...
...found charisma to strengthen Arab unity. He played a major role in Lahore, Pakistan, last week as delegates from 38 nations met for a quinquennial Islamic summit. As expected. Middle Eastern issues dominated the agenda. The Islamic leaders -including Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne as well as Sadat and Assad-issued a strong demand for the eventual return of Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem...
...that it last controlled in 1967. In expectation of that symbolic gain, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat last week nailed the outcome of the war as "the first genuine Arab victory in the past 500 years." At President Sadat's side, significantly, was Libya's maverick strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who had gone to Cairo to make a surprising public apology for having criticized Egypt's conduct of the war and its subsequent negotiations with Israel...
...even stranger flight of fancy is Berg's courtship of Libyan Strongman Gaddafi. Last spring, the Mo Letters began to talk about "godly socialism" and to describe Gaddafi as the savior who will ignite the young and rescue them from those twin sources of evil, godless Communism and American materialism. The Moslem leader, in return, has commended the C.O.G. on Libyan radio and has invited a son and daughter of Berg to visit him in Tripoli...