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...disaster which will probably carry the senatorial candidate down to defeat, an active liberal campaign by Kennedyite Michael Mills for the 1969 gubernatorial nomination against the dispirited regulars could conceivably put Mills in office. Once in office the patronage--which still controls vitually all the politics in the poverty-stricken eastern part of the state--could give the liberals control...
...such uniformity, he felt, "needs special emphasis" for a very strong current in American opinion tends to reject it... most Americans believe revolutions are initiated and carried through by underdogs against upperdogs. This in itself is basically true, if platitudinous. But they think of the underdogs as poverty-stricken, deprived of relatively simple material satisfactions, oppressed, enslaved, without education (which their masters have denied them), strong only in their numbers...
...South, the Gallup poll gave him a full 36%, more than either Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey. If crowd reactions are any indication, the disorders in Chicago have only strengthened his repressive "law and order" theme. "The other two national parties," he said on television last week, "are panic-stricken because they realize that they can no longer hoodwink the American people. They have stayed in power this long only because there was no other choice...
...afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground started to tremble and everything became dark," one grief-stricken survivor, Hossein Hedayat, related last week. "The buildings around began falling. I grabbed a tree and hung on. When the dust settled and I could see again, my house was gone. My wife and my daughters were dead." Kakhk was leveled to rubble, and 6,000 of its inhabitants died...
Model of Sobriety. Sundered, stricken Nigeria is a far different place from the fast-developing territory that in 1960 won final independence from Britain and thus became Africa's most populous country. No other on the continent had a more promising future or a more exciting present. Occupying the wide basin of the mighty Niger River, Nigeria's 56 million people had built a sturdy economy and installed an active parliamentary government. Because British colonial law had largely prevented white men from owning land, the enterprise of black traders and businessmen flourished, based on exports of palm oil and cocoa...