Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Indies have written to me and seriously questioned the merits of an institution which could allow its name to be appended to such an article. In true American style, Southern courts have already begun to quote the article as fact. I suspect, too, that our friends in South Africa will exult when they read it. All things considered, the article should go a long way toward establishing cordial relations between black statesmen and educators around the world and Harvard and the Americans...
...held for a decade that was marked by at least one violent disagreement with Ben-Gurion over recognizing West Germany; she still refuses to ride in a German-made car. More constructively, she began a quiet and highly successful campaign to win diplomatic allies among the new nations of Africa, offering them "friends" instead of "experts" and "shared goods" instead...
...other continents. Located in a spread of savanna and sandy coastland at Kourou, 26 miles north of the capital of Cayenne, the space center is tied to tracking or telemetry stations at Brétigny-sur-Orge in France, the Canary Islands, the Congo (Brazzaville), Upper Volta and South Africa. From its complex, six space probes have already been launched this year, and scientists and technicians are now working on the 18 more scheduled to follow...
...pours," to one of their own: "It leaks at the gunwale, it leaks in the keel." From the Biblical injunction, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it is only a short and negotiable step to an old saying of the Nandi tribe in East Africa: "A goat's hide buys a goat's hide and a gourd a gourd...
...rich nations are not able, as it seems that they are not, to construct a generally competent educational system for themselves, do you foresee any hopes of such a system created in Africa or Asia--in view of the crisis facing both in the next twenty years...