Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebels would be held "directly and personally responsible" for the safety of all foreigners in their area. But the U.S. could not even find anyone from the Stanleyville regime with whom to negotiate. Meantime, both Washington and Brussels had put out an all-fronts alarm. Working through Arab and African nations, they piled diplomatic pressure on the Gbenye regime to release the hostages. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant appealed in vain for a mercy mission to Stanleyville. The Belgian government got Premier Moise Tshombe to offer the rebels a halfhearted amnesty...
...young, sweat-soaked U.S. Peace Corpsmen emerged from the African rain forest to find a neat, white clinic in a straw-hut village - and a warm Willkommen from a couple of young German doctors, themselves members of a peace corps. If it has not happened already, such an encounter is bound to occur sooner or later. Struck by the success of the U.S. program, no fewer than 22 nations are beginning to field Peace Corps of their...
...first to copy President Kennedy's Peace Corps idea, has teams in Uganda. Similar programs have been initiated by Canada, Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. The French Volontaires du Progres has dispatched 95 farmers, carpenters, masons and doctors to France's former African colonies, and within a year expects to have 400 in action...
Born. To Felisberto Mutangua, 36, African vegetable farmer, and Clara Bulane Mutangua, 32: quintuplets, four boys and a girl (weights ranging from 2 Ibs. 12 oz. to 3 Ibs. 5 oz.), doubling the size of their brood; in Inhambane, Mozambique. Four days after birth the babies lived through an 11-hour, 212-mile ambulance ride along bumpy roads to a hospital in Lourenco Marques, thus vastly improving their chance to become history's fifth set of quints to survive...
...into another to form a magnificent preserve for shooting and fox hunting. Proud of their French Huguenot ancestry, the Du Fonts have given their places such names as Montchanin, Granogue, Chevannes, Nemours, Louviers and Bois des Fosses. The houses contain the big-game trophies bagged by the family on African safaris, the pictures of such Du Pont yachts as the American Eagle (a 1964 America's Cup contender) and cups won by the family's thoroughbreds, including Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso...