Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Argentine contingent, made up entirely of girls, will be the first arrivals of some 100 "Volunteers to America" recruited from Asia, Africa and Latin America. They are coming to the U.S. in response to an invitation implicit in a 1966 message to Congress by Lyndon Johnson: "Our nation has no better ambassadors than the young volunteers who serve in the Peace Corps. I propose that we welcome similar ambassadors to our shores." With domestic poverty programs already showing signs of anemia, the transfusion should be beneficial...
...summary, if guerrillas cannot capture a nationalist mantle, their prospects for success are minimal. In fact, with the exception of China and Vietnam, communists have been unable to seize control of nationalist movement anywhere in Asia or Africa. Therefore if guerrillas are successful, the nationalist governments which they establish need not conflict with America's vital interests; successful revolutionaries will insist on and maintain their independence of China and other powers...
KNOX -- Robert H. Abzug of Great Neck, N.Y. (South Africa); Jonathan Boorstin (Cambridge); Stephen L. Griffith of Washington. D.C. (Oxford); Nicholas R. Jones of Gates Mills, Ohio (University of London); D. Gordon Mosser Jr. of Minneapolis, Minn. (Oxford); Philip D. Ray of Raleigh, N.C. (University of London); Christopher St. John of Weston (London School of African and Oriental Studies); and Steven Varga-Golovesenko of Huntington Station, N.Y. (University of London...
...federal forces and sent two army battalions to the eastern border. He also ordered a naval blockade of the Eastern coast to choke off Ojukwu's economy. Though no fighting had broken out by week's end, Ojukwu predicted that there will be civil war in Africa's most populous nation (57 million). To match a federal army estimated to number 10,500 men, including reservists, Ojukwu was relying on an army of 7,000, plus a large civilian paramilitary corps...
...other jets. At cruising altitude, one of the three jet engines can be throttled back to idling position and virtually closed down without contributing extra drag, thus saving fuel. For all of these reasons, U.S. airline executives believe that the little jet is designed for short-haul work in Africa, Latin America and the Far East, a market that should be good for plenty of YAKs...