Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEAST & THE LAND (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A study of life on the Seren-geti-Mara plains of East Africa, one of the greatest remaining game reserves, where more than 1,000,000 animals roam free. Two Smithsonian Institution ecologists, Dr. and Mrs. Lee Talbot, guide the cameras, which single out the bedraggled and ungainly looking wildebeest as the most important animal on the plains...
...some Negroes--particularly for those imbued with an intense black racialist outlook--the answer to these perplexing questions is, unfortunately, rather easy. Thus white police brutality against blacks in Harlem and Mississippi and in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia should constitute the contemporaneous yardstick for the historical delimitation of the Black Experience. With this yardstick, therefore, it would be unthinkable if not treasonable to use the Haitian political experience as an historical example of something relevant and meaningful to the overall Black Experience. Instead, one would have to turn to an historical event like the slave trade to the Western...
...device was the SDR (Special Drawing Right), the IMF's answer to the need for an expanding supply of international currency which does not require that the U.S. run a deficit or that South Africa and the Soviet Union sell their gold. SDR's will never exist except on the books of the IMF; they are strictly fiat money. They are currently called SDR's because no better name has evolved (the IMF would probably welcome suggestions). They are no more and no less than their name implies; they are the right of a member nation of the IMF, under...
...total product, they will become increasingly vulnerable to the kind of economic sanctions a central bank is capable of applying. The ability of a nation to long defy world opinion or conduct itself in a manner a majority of other nations think improper (the U.S. in Vietnam or South Africa and Southern Rhodesia within their border), would be significantly reduced...
...critical problem which remains is creating courses to fill out the program. For Afro-American studies to exist at Harvard more than nominally, the Faculty must quickly recruit black scholars and make sure that departments do not continue to slight Africa in the group of courses they offer to undergraduates...