Word: somali
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...Representative John V. Lindsay. While Judy thus preps for law school, her classmate Rita Goldstein, 20, works at the Treasury Department on the Administration's tax-reform plans. Over at State, the University of Wisconsin's Dennis Dresang, 20, helped run a reception for the Somali Republic's new Ambassador to the U.S., is also handling secret dispatches for the new U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan. Yale's college corps, the biggest of all, has 70 New Blues busy at everything from aiding Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner to perusing pornography for the Post Office...
Political parties: 3. Voters: 90%. Despite such heroically padded election figures, there is little interest in politics. Ruling, radical Somali Youth League is run by Moslems who could hold their own in Chicago-style politics, have wheedled mighty loans from East and West...
...aspires to the leadership of Africa, sounded somewhat hollow-and with good reason. The 100-odd delegates from 31 African countries were largely second-string (the exception: Kenya's Tom Mboya, who goes everywhere). And the "brothers in arms" were soon at one another's throats. Somali delegates tried to denounce Ethiopian border attacks, and had to be ejected...
...covenant signed between the Europeans and the Africans -no similar document of this same relationship is likely to be drawn up again." Many writers affect to understand Africa; Author Dinesen accepts and respects its opacities ("All roots demand darkness"). She draws a memorable portrait of Farah, her face-conscious Somali majordomo, "unfailingly loyal, a cheetah noiselessly following me about at a distance of five feet, or a falcon holding onto my finger with strong talons and turning his head right and left...
Some of the uncommitted were tentative; all were self-centered. "We are the new boys at school." confided a tall, broad-shouldered delegate from Niger. "We are just watching to see how the others behave.'' A fragile Somali in an embroidered cap added, "We are interested in what concerns Africa. We do not care to become involved in the struggles between the great powers." But they also found a new pride in themselves, an awareness of growing importance...