Word: africa
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Cormack, who was born in South Africa in 1924, is now an American citizen. He came to the United States in 1956 to work at Harvard's cyclotron laboratory as a research fellow with Norman F. Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics...
...Libya, flew to a military airport outside Paris, where he begged admittance to the country. He argued that since he had served in the French colonial army, even earning the Croix de guerre, he was a French citizen. Government officials said no, and he was flown back to Africa in a French-owned DC-8 to asylum in the Ivory Coast. That decision was deplored by a number of French jurists, who insisted that Bokassa should have been admitted and tried for his crimes under French...
...costly war and have not been shy about arm twisting. Warned Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere in London's New Statesman: "If any wing of the Patriotic Front should develop doubts or hesitations about fighting such an open election, [I would] disown them and expect the rest of Africa to do the same." In much the same way, the Salisbury delegation has been under pressure from Salisbury's own patrons in South Africa, who have been actively pushing them toward compromise...
Last May Tsongas proposed a national program of "phased conditional divestiture under which universities would sell 20 per cent of their holdings in companies with operations in South Africa each year for five years, achieving complete divestiture...
Tsongas also challenged President Bok last spring to a debate on the question of Harvard's South Africa-related investments. President Bok, however, declined to debate Tsongas...