Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been growing there. At Bowdoin College, McCarthy said he would "favor" Johnson over Richard Nixon in the general election; later at Racine, he mused aloud that, if eliminated himself he might be neutral next fall. "I have a commitment," McCarthy cracked, "as chairman of the [Senate] subcommittee on Africa that I might honor at the time with a last great safari...
...decade of fiery anticolonialism, nearly every European colonial power has felt the sting of Black Africa's invective. One unlikely exception is General Francisco Franco's Spain, which still presides over a small African colonial empire of 120,000 sq. mi. and 1,400,000 people. Spain's African provinces-Spanish Sahara, Spanish Guinea, the Canary Islands and three scattered coastal outposts-stand out as a rare casebook of how to win friends and create prosperity on a violently turbulent continent. Now Spain is preparing to grant independence by July 15 to the most prosperous and politically...
...deliberations concerning the banning of South Africa from the Olympic Games in Mexico City [March 8], the International Committee should also consider banning Kenya for discrimination against resident Asians, the U.K. for discrimination against those same Asians, the Arab States for discrimination against the Israelis, Nigeria for discrimination against the Ibos, France for discrimination against the British, the Greek Cypriots for discrimination against the Turkish Cypriots and vice-versa, a majority of the nations sitting in the U.N. for discrimination against China, and the U.S. for discrimination against Ian Smith...
What's more, the Antarctic animal belonged to a group of long-extinct freshwater amphibians called Labyrinthodonts, which are known to have lived in both Australia and South Africa in the early Triassic period. The discovery thus lent support to those who believe that Antarctica, Australia, South America and India were once a single supercontinent, called "Gondwanaland,"* that broke up and drifted apart. Creatures like the labyrinthodonts, the continental drifters argue, would not have evolved separately on such isolated continents as Antarctica and Australia...
SENATOR CASE: If this was a lesson in the broader sense it means we had better get busy in similar activity in Africa and other places and develop as much as we can a real understanding of the problems of each area and its locality, is that not true...