Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vulnerable natural resources, and specifically a campaign against such blights as pollution, overcrowding and planned uglification. Train, 48, an Eisenhower appointee to a tax court judgeship, first became interested in conservation as a big-game hunter. In 1961, he founded the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation to help assure that Africa's new governments would do a better job of preserving game than their colonial predecessors had. For the past four years he has headed the nonprofit Conservation Foundation, which, under his leadership, addressed its educational and research programs to increasingly broader fields (waste disposal, the danger of pesticides, hunger...
...most significant moves so far has been to cultivate young, revolution-minded churchmen from the Third World. Among his major appointments is the Rev. Philip Potter, a West Indian Methodist, as director of the Division of World Missions and Evangelism. Echoing the dissatisfaction of other ecclesiastics from Asia, Africa and Latin America, Potter said in Tulsa last week: "Both the capitalist countries and the Socialist countries have serious weakness. Under our freedom in the West, the minority has the freedom to rot. We in the Third World don't want to be faced with either/or. We want to find...
Responding to such satisfactions, cruising sailors are how taking to the high seas in unprecedented numbers. During his stopovers at various ports, Eddy estimates that he met an "international community" of more than a hundred people sailing their boats around the world. In the port of Durban, South Africa, he docked with 15 other globe-girdling boats. The varied squadron included a 38-ft. ketch out of San Diego sailed by Photographer Fred Davenport, his wife and 10-year-old daughter Circe; a 24-ft. sloop captained by Robin Lee Graham, a Honolulu teenager who is making the voyage alone...
...Committee should encourage Departments to persuade members with some interest in African materials to cultivate such interests, thereby increasing the number of teaching faculty members seriously concerned with Africa...
...agents to take graduate courses at the East Asian Research Center--fortunately, the CIA men are only interested in getting inculcated with the values of a "liberal education"! Harvard also allows recruiters from various corporations on campus to recruit students to continue the oppression of people in Vietnam, South Africa, Guetamala, Iran, etc. It is not surprising that David Rockfeller (President of Chase Manhattan) and others like him sit as Overseers of Harvard University...