Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NAKED PREY. Manhunting in Africa a long dark century ago, with resourceful Director-Star Cornel Wilde as the sole survivor of an ill-fated safari, who becomes fair game for savage warriors...
...nations with grievances still flock to it in hopes of getting moral backing for their causes.* In 1960, Liberia and Ethiopia asked the court for a judgment on South Africa's repressive racial apartheid. Last week, after six years of painful deliberation, 6,000 pages of evidence and a legal cost to all sides of almost $18 million, the court decided not to take up apartheid at all, dismissed the case on a technicality...
...Legal Right. The case centered on a mandate conferred on South Africa by the League of Nations in 1920. South Africa was to oversee the neighboring former German territory of South West Africa, subject to the approval of the League of Nations and later the United Nations. As "interested parties" representing the 36 in dependent states of black Africa, Ethiopia and Liberia claimed that South Africa had violated its mandate by imposing racial separation on the territory's 400,000 nonwhites. A victory for Liberia and Ethiopia would have paved the way for an appeal to the United Nations...
...court voted eight to seven to dismiss the case brought by Ethiopia and Liberia against South Africa, on the technical grounds that neither of the plaintiffs had "any legal right or interest" in the matter...
...already sworn to bar re-election for any of the judges who voted against Ethiopia and Liberia. Violence is hinted at everywhere. Those who used to urge economic sanctions and legal proceedings have been silenced and feel as if they have betrayed the cause of racial justice in South Africa by delaying the inevitable conflict. There is a feeling among Western liberals that they have been defeated by their own democratic institutions; that international organs have not stood up under the stress of a potential international crisis...