Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the past decade, while the winds of change whipped through the rest of Africa, the only thing blowing in French Somaliland was sand. An arid enclave of 72,000 African tribesmen, 8,000 Arabs and 600,000 goats, it voted in 1958 to remain a colony of France, apparently content with the several mil lion dollars a year that the French spend to help support it. Or so it seemed un til last month, when Charles de Gaulle passed through on the first leg of his round-the-world tour. Unexpectedly, he was greeted by riots and demonstrations whose...
...days and, as of last year, for 180 days. He also gained the right to extend indefinitely the sentences of all political prisoners, and this year was empowered to take "emergency" police measures such as imposing curfews without declaring a state of emergency. Accused last year of turning South Africa into a police state, Vorster rose in Parliament to offer his defense: "It is not the time to be sensitive about principles...
That kind of doubletalk must have mystified his listeners. Then he added: "Until we are again in calmer waters, I believe that I owe it to South Africa to take personal responsibility for the safety of the state...
boycott would bring Britain into conflict with South Africa and endanger the strong and lucrative trade ties the two share. He fudged on NIBMAR; but to prove that his heart was in the right place, he delivered an ultimatum of sorts to Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Unless Smith agreed to form an "acceptable" government by Christmas, Wilson would ask the U.N. to impose mandatory sanctions on Rhodesian pig iron, chrome and asbestos...
...blockade; after all, one mandatory oil blockade was supposedly already in force, but Rhodesia had somehow always managed to get plenty of oil. In the end, there was not much the Commonwealth could do about it. Before they went home, however, the leaders of 16 former British possessions in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean broke ranks with Wilson, made use of the official conference communique-traditionally a bland document saying nothing-to register their disagreement and disgust...