Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pacific (afloat): 43,000 Japan: 40,000 Philippines: 30,000 Mediterranean (afloat and ashore): 28,000 Britain: 22,000 Atlantic (afloat): 20,000 Latin America (including Guantanamo Bay and Panama Canal Zone): 16,000 Canada, Greenland and Iceland: 10,000 Spain: 10,000 Turkey: 10,000 Middle East and Africa; 10,000 Taiwan...
Another terrestrial phenomenon?continental drift?could be confirmed by the lunar laser experiment. Periodically measuring the distance between the moon and lasers beamed from fixed points in Africa and South America, scientists will use triangulation to determine whether the distance between the two continents is gradually increasing...
Disfavor turned to harassment in 1965, when Mail Reporter Benjamin Pogrund wrote a series of articles exposing brutality and unhygienic living conditions in South Africa's jails. Gandar editorially demanded an inquiry. Instead, the government set up perjury trials for the ex-prisoners who had been interviewed. Four were convicted, and served sentences of up to 18 months. Then, Pogrund and Gandar were arrested under a law that makes it a crime to publish information about prisons without taking "reasonable steps" to verify accuracy...
There is no shortage of barriers to doing business in Africa. Shaky local governments are often difficult to deal with, markets are hard to develop, and trained workers are in short supply...
...leftist and revile his enemy. Whites still recall the man so cultured and well-spoken that many colonials considered him a "black European." But because Moise Tshombe relied to such an extent on white advice and white arms, his name is no longer beautiful in much of black Africa. Indeed, like that of Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, it has become in some places on the continent a synonym for traitor...