Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, September 26 AFRICA (ABC, 9:30-10:30 a.m.). Repeat of the second hour from the recent four-hour special, highlighting tribalism and the many problems of Ghana...
When they get together, Africa's leaders are great talkers. When they return home, however, they too often seem to forget what the talk was all about. Last week, at the fourth "summit conference" of the Organization of African Unity in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, heads of state from 18 African nations passed a number of resolutions that could go far toward bringing order to the Continent-if anything is ever done about them. One of the main achievements of the conference was that the chiefs were able to assemble...
...this was a fine beginning. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, an invited guest, exhorted the members to greater things but politely reminded them that beginnings too often remain just that in Africa. After four years of existence, said Thant, "your organization has not made the hoped-for progress toward achievement of its goals...
...with some 20th century masterpieces, including Malraux's Man's Fate and Camus' long essay The Rebel. In that company, Koningsberger is hopelessly out of place; what is more, his character is also out of date. A.'s home is an imaginary European country, not Africa or Asia, where the action is. Furthermore, A. is totally unversed in Mao, Ho Chi Minh or Che Guevara, who are far more relevant in the current revolutionary situations than the drawing-room Marx that A. and his friends are apt to spout...
...proposed that Germany be broken up into autonomous agrarian states, that the Ruhr and Saar industrial complex be dismantled and carted away to Allied countries after its mines were flooded and dynamited, and that all German men between the ages of 20 and 40 be transported to Central Africa to work as slave laborers on a mammoth "international...