Word: africa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to international practice, Algeria should not surrender Tshombe to Mobutu inasmuch as he was convicted on political, not criminal, charges. Yet Boumediene is eager to improve his image in Black Africa, whose leaders almost all revile Tshombe as a "Black Judas" for protecting Belgian financial interests in the Congo and using white mercenaries to keep himself in power. The official Algerian newspaper El Moudjahid proposed establishing an "African Nürnberg" to try Tshombe...
...Essay on Israel [June 23]. It is a fact that "ability to stake out a territory" with force if necessary will establish a sovereign state, but is that also its justification? What about groups that have identity and tradition but no power, for example, the American Indian and South Africa's Negro population? I am surprised at your lack of a sense of moral consciousness; or should I be glad that a national publication has had the candor to admit that for all of our 20th century sophisticated internationalism, we are still not that far removed from our caveman...
Schistosomiasis, or snail fever, afflicts about 200 million people, chiefly in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Caused by parasitic blood flukes, it is found around marshy deltas, sewage-contaminated lakes and irrigation ditches, where the larvae of the worms lodge in snails and flourish. Invading the human body through the skin, the larvae head for the liver, there mature into flukes that migrate to the small veins of the bowel, where the female lays innumerable eggs every day, sometimes for years. Many eggs are swept into the liver and other organs. They cause irritation and scarring in the liver (which...
...been excreting thousands of eggs a day; after the operation, ten excreted no more eggs, suggesting that all the mated flukes had been filtered out of their systems, and seven others showed great improvement. Though it was developed specifically for the fluke Schistosoma mansoni, common in South America and Africa, Drs. Kean and Goldsmith believe the technique can be adapted to remove both the Asiatic form, which causes an even more severe disease, and a variety that is common in the Near East and exposes Africans to double jeopardy...
...outward appearances, Rhodesia has remained unperturbed by six months of United Nations economic sanctions. The bustling capital of Salisbury is alive with fashion-conscious white shoppers. As before, parking is a problem. Car owners have had ample supplies of fuel furnished by the kindred regime of South Africa. And new factories, created since the crisis to take up the slack in imports, are producing more of everything from ballpoint pens to refrigerators. Now, however, a government announcement indicates that Rhodesia has, in fact, some very real troubles...