Word: unga
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...been interested in Burma for a long time. I hosted a roundtable during the UNGA [United Nations General Assembly] last year. I've been briefed by Ibrahim Gambari [the U.N. Secretary General's special advisor on Burma...
...pouring no less than four million dollars of his own money into his campaign. Most of these dollars have gone towards negative commercials against Kerry--many of which are based on outright lies and deliberate distortions. For example, Rappaport has claimed that Kerry met with known "terrorist" Guillerma Unga on a trip to Central America--a claim disputed by top officials from both the Bush administration and Congress. Rappaport's ads also imply that Kerry has never sponsored successful legislation--a blatant distortion of Kerry's record...
...lists speaking in tongues as a gift of the Holy Spirit, along with prophecy and healing. They hoot at skeptics. "It's pretty hard for a man with an idea to go up against one with an experience," says one self-satisfied glossolalist. Sample tonguing: "Ulla, ulla, unga, unga garah, atta alia ungaraze...
...sooner had the Witch Doctor, or Unga, divined certain extraordinary qualities of Mrs. Garrett than she fell into a trance. The "healing stones" sacred to Papaleba were tossed into a fire, and Mrs. Garrett was ordered to fetch and lay them before the altar of Papaleba. She accomplished this feat without burning her flesh; and thus, as she says, she passed her "trial by fire." As illustration, Mista Shabine sang for the audience the introductory chant to Papaleba...
Finally, Cimbe, another Haitian god, came to her in the dark of the night and told her to come back to Haiti immediately. Mrs. Garrett was more mystified than ever by all these phenomena, but she obeyed Cimbe and returned to her old haunts. The Unga, or Witch Doctor, introduced her to another god, Papabidigri, and everything was all right again...