Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eduardo Mondlane was a revolution ary, and the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) he headed was one of black Africa's more effective independence movements. Tall, handsome Mondlane was also a scholar who loved the bookish academic world he abandoned just six years ago, and it is clear that his enemies knew their man all too well. Last week an expertly built bomb killed him as he worked at an American friend's villa' in Dar es Salaam. The bomb had come to him concealed in a book...
Mondlane himself, educated in South Africa, Portugal and the U.S. (an Oberlin College graduate, with a Ph.D. from Northwestern University), was damned as a moderate by more radical leaders...
...recommended new dates on the calendar are reserved for more recent, less radical figures: John Keble, one of the brightest lights of the 19th century Anglican resurgence known as the Oxford Movement, and David Livingstone, 19th century medical missionary who incidentally helped to open up the continent of Africa. Perhaps most surprising in the ecumenical list is the inclusion of two prominent figures from the Catholic Counter-Reformation: St. Francis Xavier, the great Jesuit missionary to India and Japan, and St. Francis de Sales-who on the proposed list is generously allowed to share a commemoration day with King Charles...
...Angeles Open last month was a milestone. Short, stubby Charlie Sifford, jumping off to a first-round lead with five birdies and an eagle in one six-hole spree, won the season's opening tournament on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off against, ironically, South Africa's Harold Henning. Thus Sifford, long the victim of the apartheid in pro golf, picked up $20,000 and became, however briefly, the first Negro to lead the money winners on the pro tour...
...credit Swahili course offered by volunteer teachers for Africa will hold its first meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Phillips Brooks House. All interested persons are welcome. Call Don Shepard, X526, for information...