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...showdown between the Ivy League and the NCAA cannot be avoided after March 5, when the NCAA basketball championships are scheduled to begin, although the skiing championships begin...
Shock and sorrow ensued, for everyone had hoped that De Gaulle's recent close squeeze at the polls would have chastened French policy. But Paris was still its old imperious self. The Five denounced the French demands and recessed the talks until Jan. 28, when a showdown seemed inevitable...
...Congress, shrewdly refused to comment on this article. But his boss, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Premier of the North, and President of the Northern People's Congress, denounced the President and proclaimed (not for the first time), "Sooner or later we shall have a showdown...
...August elections in the West were held in October, and they were not "free and fair." The Constitutional Convention did not meet. As a result, the Azikiwe-Balewa compromise has failed and the "showdown" has come in a violent manner, precipitated by men who have grown tired of the broken promises of the politicians. The Sardauna and Sir Abubakar have been murdered, as has their ally, Chief Samuel Akintola, Premier of the West, and their friend Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, the incredibly rich Federal Finance Minister who held the key to the balance of power in the Midwestern Region. Only...
...that T.T.K. had used his office to advance the business interests of his sons. Krishnamachari appealed to Shastri to personally exonerate him of the accusation. Shastri stalled, suggesting that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ought to examine the matter. Enraged, the Finance Minister walked in for a showdown. "You are not indispensable," said Shastri. Replied Krishnamachari: "I should have quit when Nehru died...