Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeds of dissent seem to be sprouting everywhere and almost simultaneously. West German students riot against a democratic coalition government while their Spanish counterparts make Francisco Franco's twilight years uneasy. Harold Wilson's government bobs precariously in a sea of discontent, while in parts of Africa the old tribalism engulfs the new nationalism. In Czechoslovakia, having overturned one of the most obdurate Stalinist regimes to survive in Eastern Europe, libertarian pressure refuses to subside...
...land of mountains." The tablet tells of ten Phoenician trading vessels that embarked from the ancient port of Ezion-geber (near the modern Israeli town of Elath) on the Gulf of Aqaba, possibly in the 7th century B.C. Presumably, they sailed through the Red Sea, rounded the tip of Africa, and were caught by a fierce ocean storm. Driven into the South Equatorial Current, one of the ships must have been swept across the Atlantic to the coast of Brazil. And there the hardy band of voyagers left their historic memoir...
...also stiffer than steel, top players who have used the new racket claim to get better control on volleys, lobs and drop shots. "The ball doesn't fly off the surface as it does with steel," says the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston who, along with South Africa's Cliff Drysdale, plans to use the aluminum racket on this year's pro tour...
...THERE is anything good about South Africa Wait a Minim...
...cross-registration at M.I.T. should be routine, the HPC says, since it is already allowed for science courses. The courses the HPC wants to see listed in the Harvard Course Catalogue include, "The Rise of African Nationalism," "The Emergence of Modern Africa," "Mechanisms and Forms of Protest," and "Comparative African Politics...