Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed to prove the ultimate formula for Southeast Asia, the Johnson Administration was not notably eager to embrace it yet. Nor was Peking, which has yet to give any shred of evidence that it is willing to relinquish its ambitions to foment "wars of liberation" throughout Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Even apart from its evangelistic mission to win the world for Communism, neutralism seems unlikely to appeal to the aging hierarchy in Peking, which seems more than ever convinced that it needs more rather than less militancy to sustain its own revolutionary mystique at home. In any case...
Barricade of Boxes. Two days later, the general was back on the air with even better news. "Ghana's burden of taxation is the highest in Africa," he said, announcing a wide range of tax cuts on everything from basic foods to income. To spur the private enterprise that Nkrumah had always shunned, Ankrah pledged that private companies would no longer be forced to accept government "participation...
...hoped to make last week's meeting of the Organization of African Unity a rallying point for tough action against Premier Ian Smith's rebel regime. It did not work out that way. No sooner had the delegates from 36 nations gathered in Addis Ababa's Africa Hall than they fell to squabbling about Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah, an advocate of direct African military action against the Rhodesians. Guinea, Mali, Tanzania and Egypt all stomped out of the conference when it was decided to seat a Ghanaian delegation representing the new Accra government. After that...
...strange goings-on in Uganda last week presented a variation on Africa's current crop of coups. Uganda's gov ernment was overthrown all right, but not by military men. It was Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote himself who seized full powers, and he did it, so he said, only to prevent another coup which was being planned against...
Clark startled his audience when he stated. "I welcome the population explosion." He noted that the possibility of starvation might provide the impetus for the primitive agrarian laborer in Africa to work his plot more than the present average of four hours...