Word: africa
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...Pacific Council (ASPAC) and the Asian Development Bank. Taiwan, once cited as the supreme example of an economy artificially supported by outside (U.S.) aid, cut loose from all U.S. economic aid more than a year ago and is now sending technicians out on its own aid programs, notably to Africa. South Korea, with some 50,000 U.S. troops still stationed there to guard the northern border, has achieved a relatively stable government, and its economy is slowly improving...
Sierra Leone last week got its fifth government in a week, which sets a new record even for restless Africa. The change took place while British United Airways Flight 321 from London to Freetown bore homeward Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, 39, who had been summoned from his United Nations diplomatic post to head a new military junta, which had overthrown Army Commander David Lansana, who had arrested Prime Minister Siaka Stevens, who had been named to replace Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai, whose government apparently lost last fortnight's elections...
Such quarrelsome words usually lead straight to trouble, and that is just what was brewing last week in Africa's most populous nation. For months Nigeria has teetered on the edge of civil war, its fate hinging on relations between two young, untested leaders. Colonel Ojukwu, 33, governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, afraid of a repeat of recent massacres of his fellow Ibo tribesmen, is demanding more legal autonomy from the central military government headed by Colonel Gowon, 32. Ojukwu vows to seize more autonomy whether Gowon approves or not-and last week he took a step...
Helping Matters Along. The Somali tribesmen, who make up the largest population segment of France's last colony in Africa, favor independence because they want their fellow tribesmen in neighboring (and independent) Somalia to annex French Somaliland. The trouble was that they were registered to vote in fewer numbers than the Afars, a rival tribe that wants to stay tied to France. Neighboring Ethiopia, which contains large numbers of Afars, backs the tribe's cause in French Somaliland. More than tribal loyalty is involved: Ethiopia has a sound economic motive in not wanting its outlet to the Gulf...
...from an early invention, the Single Dial Tuning Control (now standard for radio receivers) to set up short-wave radio station WRUL near Boston in 1934, turned it into a forerunner of the Voice of America, countering Nazi propaganda in 24 languages beamed to Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa; after a long illness; in Old Greenwich, Conn...