Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asian or African standards, the anti-American demonstration in Manila was sedate. Some Reds were undoubtedly involved, but it seemed to be the work mostly of a mixed lot of opportunistic politicians hoping to exploit nationalist feeling. Still, American and Filipino officials worried about the future of U.S.-Philippine relations and, indeed, about the stability of the strongest anti-Communist bastion in Southeast Asia. Given the deteriorating situation in South Viet Nam and the Communist menace to the whole region, the Philippine Republic, which is often hopefully regarded as the showcase of U.S. style democracy in Asia, becomes increasingly important...
Wawa, it seems, had a role in the recent mysterious ouster of two American diplomats from the fledgling East African republic (TIME, Jan. 22). Some weeks ago, it now appears, Frank Carlucci, U.S. consul in Zanzibar, was talking by telephone with Robert Gordon, U.S. embassy counselor in Tanzania's coastal capital of Dar es Salaam. Their conversation was, of course, being tapped. At one point they expressed mutual regret that the State Department had not sent good wishes to Zanzibar's Boss Abeid Karume on "the twelfth"-the first anniversary of the coup d'état that...
Trouble with Hippos. Sugar consumption varies from the African bush-man's 3.7 Ibs. per year to the tea-and taffy-loving Briton's 116 Ibs., but it is rising everywhere, has now reached a worldwide record of 38 Ibs. annually per person. The Dutch set up a sugar industry for Ethiopia, where coffee was traditionally seasoned with salt and spices, and so converted the Ethiopians to sweetness that they have now become modest exporters of sugar. Turkey has also become an exporter, and so has Bolivia, which ran up a 22,000-ton surplus last year...
...moment, it looked as if the cold war had reached flash point in Burundi. The tiny African nation had been the biggest base for Red Chinese subversion on the continent. Fortnight ago, when moderate Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe was installed to check Peking's rising influence, nobody doubted that the Chinese would respond. Then the Premier was gunned down on the steps of a Bujumbura hospital. But the man who was arrested was a local African employed as a stenotypist in the U.S. embassy. Immediately, the noisy cry echoed through Africa: "Imperialist plot...
Just when many companies are thinking of pulling out of troubled Africa, one is busily building a business empire as big as any since the heyday of Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company. The new African giant is Lonrho, Ltd., a 55-year-old London-based firm that until 1961 seemed content to run its ranching and mining interests in Rhodesia. Since then, it has been gobbling up enterprises and creating new ones in seven south-central African nations, and it is hungrily casting about for more. Last week Lonrho began operating a 187-mile, $11.2 million pipeline...