Word: african
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...erupted in hostility toward Jewish groups, which they blamed, somewhat unfairly, for the ouster of the highest black in Government. Last week President Carter named an adroit successor to Young: Donald F. McHenry, 42, a top deputy at the U.N. mission. Though close to Young and equally absorbed in African affairs, McHenry is a polished career diplomat who is as well known for prudence as Young is for impetuosity...
...says something, he knows exactly what he is saying." He is described as the classic understated statesman with a scholar's rather than a preacher's approach to diplomacy. At his best in behind-the-scenes maneuvering, he led a protracted effort to get the Front Line African states, as well as South Africa, to agree to an independent Namibia. Talking to the press last week, McHenry lamented the high visibility of his new post. "It's difficult to accomplish foreign policy objectives in a fishbowl," he said. "I can't sneak around any more...
...arena was the Sixth Conference of Nonaligned Countries opening this week in the Cuban capital, which had been unusually well scrubbed and widely festooned with anti-American slogans for the occasion. For the 93 delegations from mostly Latin American, African and Asian countries, plus three guerrilla organizations, it promised to be the most critical ideological tug-of-war in the quarter-century-old identity crisis of the emerging Third World. The main question: Can the nonaligned family of nations continue to maintain its uncertain neutrality between the U.S. and Soviet superpowers-or will it lurch east and left and effectively...
...AFRICAN CALLIOPE: A JOURNEY TO THE SUDAN by Edward Hoagland Random House; 239 pages...
...write about America without mentioning Tocqueville, or Africa without a nod to Conrad. Those authors are not only fixed points to steer by but fetishes that protect a writer from foundering in swamps of detail. Edward Hoagland does not get around to his ritual reference until page 91 of African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan: "Far from learning something new about the black-white torque that is such a misery in America, here I was freer of it. But the other reason why I had come to Africa, instead of to another southern continent, was that on the contrary...