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...also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
Contradictions hung from him like the charms that once dangled from the arms of his chair to ward off evil spirits. From his birth in a mud hut, Kwame Nkrumah rose to become President of Ghana, an absolute ruler who was thought to be immortal by many of his subjects. But even at the height of his power, he lived in fear of his life, behind heavily guarded walls-calling himself Osagyefo (Redeemer). From 1966 until he died last week of cancer at age 62, in a Bucharest sanitarium where he had gone for treatment, Nkrumah had lived in exile...
...with mainland Tanganyika three months later to form the United Republic of Tanzania. The islands retained their own army and remained a tyrannical law unto themselves. Karume, a Moslem, became First Vice President of the union under Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere; in practice he remained the sole ruler of Zanzibar and rarely visited, or bothered with the mainland...
UNTIL last week, virtually no progress had been made toward peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors since the end of the Six-Day War in June 1967. Then, in what King Hussein described as a "historical pronouncement," Jordan's plucky ruler outlined a bold, ambitious plan that could conceivably normalize relations between his country and Israel-with potentially far-reaching consequences for the entire Middle East...
...elements [in the Arab world] whose aim is war against Israel." Predictably, Mrs. Meir was totally opposed to Hussein's suggestion that Israel surrender part of Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip to enlarge his nation. "He crowns himself king of Jerusalem," she said scornfully, "and envisions himself as ruler of larger territories than were under his control prior to the rout of June 1967." Nonetheless she conceded that "the truth of the matter is that this plan affects Israel's most vital interests." The Knesset thereupon adopted a resolution urging the government to "continue to negotiate" with Jordan...