Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journalist, says Clark, he worked for newspapers in St. Joseph, Mo., St. Louis and Washington, D.C., before joining TIME'S Chicago bureau in 1962. Since then, his assignments have taken him to Britain, Scandinavia, Africa, Canada and all over the U.S. But his only exposure to the sort of unpleasantness he has found in Viet Nam came in Oxford, Miss. "That was in the fall of 1962, when I cringed behind Doric columns at 'Ole Miss' to avoid Confederate fusillades unleashed to protest the enrollment of James Meredith...
...only last fall that an improbable little part-island, part-mainland Spanish territory in Africa won its independence and sidled into the world's consciousness as the 126th member of the United Nations. The omens could not have been brighter. Spanish U.N. Ambassador Don Jaime de Pinies applauded "the splendid example of peaceful independence" set by tiny Equatorial Guinea, and in return the nation's U.N. ambassador, Saturnine Ibongo lyanga, said his countrymen hoped to be "an Iberian bridge to Africa." All differences seemed ironed out between the 60,000 Fangs of underdeveloped Rio Muni, the mainland wing...
...Tome Island drowses in tropic torpor. Toward evening, however, the diminutive Portuguese colony off West Africa's underbelly in the Gulf of Guinea suddenly rouses. Along its single airport's runway can be seen a motley squadron of DC-6s, a C-46, a Super Constellation, and lately bigger but nonetheless obsolete C-97 stratofreighters, wheezing into readiness. Trucks dash up, hauling crates of food and medicines. Eventually, crews as varied as their airplanes - Swedes, Finns, Americans, a stolid Yorkshireman, a not so dour Scot - screech up in cars and climb aboard. One by one, at 20-minute...
...facing such hazards ranges upwards of $5,000 a month. Even at those wages, most U.S. crews of the C-97s that reached Africa in January are already refusing to fly any more and are returning home. The Europeans, mostly veteran pilots too old or to flaky to be hired by regular airlines, are thus still bearing the brunt of the shuttle, though they have been flying only two nights out of every four instead of every night, as they did before the ex-U.S. Air Force C-97s arrived...
There will be a rally at noon today at City Hall Plaza, Boston to protest the policies of the South African government and U.S. economic involvement there. Speakers from Harvard and Brandeis will also discuss the liberation movement in South Africa...