Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Syria's President Shukri el Ku-watly, Nasser and Saud sat down to survey the North African bloodshed and Levantine disorder that their intrigue and gold had helped to promote. Outside, in the Cairo streets, the mobs reckoned on only one advantage from their strengthened position: When the "summit" leaders went to pray at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Alazhar mosque, 3,000 Moslems shouted: "Israel must be annihilated...
Court Tennis, usually restricted to wealthy athletes because of the scarcity of court tennis courts, is now in its third year of intercollegiate competition. It was revived by James Van Alen. Van Alen, brother of the United States Court Tennis Association President, will interrupt an African safari by flying to New York for the tourney...
France's two other North African territories moved nearer independence-and farther from France. For two weeks Foreign Minister Christian Pineau's negotiators had been stubbornly insisting that France could never agree to recognize Morocco's independence until Sultan Ben Youssef had also accepted terms of "interdependence." Last week France gave in. It signed a declaration recognizing Morocco's sovereignty and granting Morocco the right to maintain an army and conduct its own diplomacy. The terms of interdependence are still to be written...
...establish white supremacy in a land of 2,600,000 whites and 10,000,000 nonwhites. Its Upper House now packed with 41 new, Strydom-created Senators to furnish the necessary votes, Parliament bowled heavily through a final joint session to change an "entrenched clause" in the 1909 South African constitution and strike the last 45,000 Colored (mixed blood) voters from the common voting roll. Strydom's-majority...
Lurking among the flowers and vegetables in many a South African garden patch is an innocent-looking weed called dagga. Dried and smoked like marijuana, a close relative, it induces a dreamy recklessness that can spur men to acts of terrible savagery. Nearly one-fourth of the rapes, murders and maulings that occur in the slums of South Africa's great cities are blamed on dagga...