Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The 1942 invasion of North Africa and some of the cloak-and-dagger activity that preceded it. Repeat...
...which 61,000 tons are in Southeast Asia. Last month some 50,000 tons-25% more than originally planned-were dropped in 4,700 sorties. The Pentagon plans to use 638,000 tons of bombs in Viet Nam in 1966 alone, 40% of the amount used against Germany in Africa and Europe from mid-1942 until the end of World War II and 91% of the total dropped in the entire 37-month Korean War. The recent reduction in bombing runs, McNamara pointed out, occurred because "political disorders" in Saigon slowed ground operations throughout South Viet Nam. Nevertheless, he said...
...Harvard came at the end of '64 when Malcolm X spoke on a panel with Martin L. Kilson and James Q. Wilson. "This was his muck-raker phase when he had just broken with the Black Muslims and was critical of everyone. Three months later, after another trip to Africa, Malcolm X returned to the Law School Forum to give a very introspective, self-critical speech...
...touch in these books is as light as Ronald Firbank's, but unlike that airy Edwardian, Waugh displays feelings that are as savage as Swift's; and in Black Mischief (1932), a hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England, his feelings find blackly humorous expression: the British hero, inquiring after his British sweetheart in an African town, is cheerfully informed that she was the principal ingredient in the stew he has just eaten...
Claiming that the U.S. is second only to South Africa in "spreading the poisons of racism and chauvinism," Herbert Aptheker last night called for a Marxist solution of domestic problems...