Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodies & Tie Clips. Promises that he and President Johnson would go over the heads of Congress to persuade Americans to give more help to Africa peppered the Vice President's public speeches and talks with African leaders. There were also some goodies: news of a $36.5 million loan for a dam in the Ivory Coast, $12 million worth of Food for Peace for Ghana, Peace Corps volunteers for the Congo, and help with a road in Zambia, as well as engraved silver bowls for heads of state and tie clips or cufflinks for lesser African functionaries. And everywhere there...
...return to party politics and parliamentary rule, a particularly natural wish in a country that is rich in vocal professionals. Sensing that such a return may be imminent, some politicians have exploited the emotional letdown from the years when Nkrumah promised Ghana the leadership of all of Africa. They have charged Ankrah with turning the country into a provincial, beggar nation, made such an issue out of an agreement that gave Abbott Laboratories of Illinois control of the state pharmaceutical corporation that Abbott decided last month to leave Ghana...
...Barnard now had a delicate problem. Haupt was of a complicated racial mixture (part white, part Bantu, part Malay, perhaps even part Hottentot) that is classified as "Colored" under South Africa's race laws. Dr. Barnard asked Blaiberg whether he would object to receiving a Colored man's heart. No, replied the desperate patient-who, like Washkansky, happened to be Jewish. Then the surgeons had to get consent from Haupt's next of kin. His wife Dorothy collapsed when she was told he could not survive. To protect themselves, the doctors asked Haupt's mother. Widowed...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Joost de Blank, 59, former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; of a stroke; in London. Arriving in South Africa in 1957, the Dutch-born prelate raged against apartheid, calling for an end to the government's racist policies, opening his cathedral doors to all races, criticizing the Dutch Reformed Church for its failure to denounce apartheid-all of which stirred an uproar that did not subside until he moved to London in 1963 as Canon of Westminster Abbey...
...booted in the stomach and loses her baby. An Angolan Negro loses his passbook, hence his job, hence his life. The pitiable wages of native contract laborers are recorded, along with a drum-roll-call of industrial corporations that draw profits from the mines of Rhodesia, Katanga and South Africa...