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...white liberator of Africa," cracked an aide as Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroo-mah) poked his lathered dusky face out of a Blair House bathroom. Laughing lustily, the irrepressible Prime Minister of Ghana (pop. 4,800,000) finished his shave, draped on one of his $300 tribal robes of kente cloth, plunged into three days of red-carpet treatment in Washington. Fresh from a dignified state visit in Canada, he carefully controlled the spellbinding flamboyance that made him the "show boy" hero of the Dark Continent, but his warm humor hid just under the surface of his talk about somber...
Pockets & Pipes. The Four Corners oil boom is nothing like an oldtime oil rush. Most of the land is in the hands of the federal or state governments or Indian tribal councils, and with leases going for as much as $4,308 an acre (v. $100 or so only two years ago), only the biggest companies can afford to gamble. They are there-in force. El Paso Natural Gas built a $750,000 division headquarters to operate the pipeline, has expanded it three times since 1952. This week or next, Shell Oil moves into a $500,000 headquarters, while Phillips...
...Tribal & Local. After two months of civil war, he still refuses to say that he will not seek reelection, points only to his Premier's statement of last May that his government will not press this goal. "Since the crisis began," says a Beirut observer, "Chamoun has not said one word to his people. He talks only to foreign diplomats and foreign newsmen." He has declined to call Parliament into session; he has rejected repeated rebel - and third force - offers to compromise. He insisted last week that he has "a substantial majority in the country...
...Lebanon's eight political parties, all the religious leaders, all the former Presidents, Premiers, Foreign Ministers and Speakers of Parliament have taken a stand against the Chamoun regime. Anger at Chamoun is the only single force that unites the divided rebel leadership, much of which is tribal and local and asserts its authority now largely because the government does not or cannot. Many leaders of the Moslem Arabs themselves are politicians used to playing Lebanese politics according to the rules that Chamoun has tried to change, and are by no means eager to submerge themselves, and the economic advantages...
Tiny Lebanon (pop. 1,500,000) is roughly half Christian, half Moslem, but that is not the half of it. In this ancient land of differing races and religions, personal and tribal loyalties count for more than other allegiances. Among the key personalities...